Quotes About Community

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.