Quotes About Community

If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

Evil draws men together.

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swallowed up in the ocean—unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who will remember your contributions and carry them forward.

That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.

She just didn't think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up

Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger's end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.

There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world.

Reality is what we make it. Or what is made for us by the companies we keep. It is our clay from which we fashion ourselves.

From an evolution standpoint, what was the point of having people around who were not inclined to have offspring? There must be some good, and fairly subtle, reason for it. The only thing he could work out was that it was groups of people—societies—rather than individual creatures, who were now trying to out-reproduce and/or kill each other, and that, in a society, there was plenty of room for someone who didn't have kids as long as he was up to something useful.