Quotes About Community

For better or for worse, meeting Russell Bufalino and being seen in his company put me deeper into the downtown culture than I ever would have gotten on my own. After the war, meeting Russell was the biggest thing that happened to me after my marriage and having my daughters. I

The best thing, and the most important thing the labor movement cannot do without, and must have and fight to keep, is solidarity.

The solution to the problems of the church today lies in solving the problems of individual Christians, and the remedy is a person—the Holy Spirit.

The two basic attitudes of life that must characterize genuine, biblical spirituality are thankfulness at all times and in all circumstances and the maintenance of unity in that part of the body of Christ.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

We have as many personalities as we have friends' Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

A stele was erected as a souvenir. It was written: the mountain is no longer alone; the trees support it. (Une stèle fut érigée en souvenir. Y était inscrit : la montagne n'est plus seule; les arbres la soutiennent.)"

Christ has global funeral, every Sunday and since twenty centuries. (Jésus a des funérailles mondiales, - Tous les dimanches, et depuis vingt siècles.)

Hundred people enter more easily than a giant. A big reform passes less than a hundred of small. (Cent gens entrent mieux qu'un géant. - Une grosse réforme passe moins que cent.)

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Change begins at home

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.