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Quotes About Community

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~ The Blonde Jon
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
~ The Midrash
Be good to people in your way up, so if you ever fall you will need their support on your way down.
~ the omani shed
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
~ The Talmud
Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
~ The Talmud
Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity.
~ The Talmud
Wicca is a living, evolving religion.
~ Thea Sabin
They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.
~ Thelonious Monk
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~ Theodor Adorno
No emancipation without that of society.
~ Theodor Adorno
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.
~ Theodor Herzl
To say "we" and mean "I" is one of the most recondite insults.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
but only a moment's reflection is necessary to realize that, where there is a choice of incarceration and so-called community sentencing, a reduction in the rate of recidivism is perfectly compatible with a rise, even a huge rise, in the numbers of crimes committed; and vice versa, with a rise in the rate of recidivism coincident with a fall, even a dramatic fall, in the rate of crime.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Voting is a civic sacrament.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.
~ Theodore Roosevelt