Quotes About Community

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Evils draw men together.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

No man can Become Rich without enriching others.

What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.