Quotes About Community

Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.

We could buy a sewing machine and share it," Charlene said. "We could buy cloth and spools of thread and paper patterns and spend pleasant winter evenings dressmaking together. Perhaps by the soft light from beautiful glass oil lamps. We could sit in a pool of golden light from the beautiful glass oil lamps and our silver needles would glimmer and flash as we bowed our heads to the simple yet honest work." But

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular