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Quotes About Community

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
~ Margaret Carty
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
~ Le Roi Jones
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something.
~ Clara McBride Hale
A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
~ Homer
The most important office is that of private citizen.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
~ Mason Cooley
The poor will always be with you.
~ Bible
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
~ Bible
Pray for one another.
~ Bible
He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.
~ Talmud
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
~ Socrates
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
~ John Locke
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
~ Alcuin
It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.
~ William Thackeray
Flint must be an extremely wealthy town; I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
~ Victor Borge
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one.
~ Joan Baez
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
~ John Andrew Holmes
And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! His sisters and his cousins Whom he reckons up by dozens, And his aunts!
~ W. S. Gilbert
To be of no Church is dangerous.
~ Samuel Johnson