Quotes About Community

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

I build only living stones--men.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop