Quotes About Community

In almost any society, I think, the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as, and no better than that of the conformists.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

We're all in this together ... alone.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

One for the master, And one for my dame, And one for the little boy Who lives in the lane.

All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.

Man is a social animal.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.

Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.