Quotes About Community

As a result, the radical Islamists have nearly pulled off the impossible: A formerly receptive Sunni tribal community has turned against Sunni Muslim jihadists and joined with American infidels, sometimes alongside the troops of a Shiite-led government.

how putting global concerns above national interests insidiously erodes the financial health, freedoms, and safety of Americans. In blunter terms, when American elites feel their first concerns are with the world community abroad rather than with the interests of their own countrymen, there are consequences for American citizens.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.

If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child.

In every village there is a candle, the teacher; and an extinguisher, the clergy.

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it.

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them.

To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables

The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.

Great perils share this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

Misery offers; society accepts

Misfortunes shared creates happiness.