Quotes About Community

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

The happy man in this life needs friends.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

There is no such man as a one-person hero.

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.