Quotes About Community

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

Franklin's idea for a multidenominational church where all who accepted "the existence of a supreme intelligence" could come together in celebration of common ideas of morality rather than fixed religious doctrines

I find all of them beautiful, the plump and the pudgy, the slim and the muscular, those who stand like solid tree trunks, the tiny ones who move like ping-pong balls, lovely, amusing, and brilliant. Although most of them are illiterate, they've always been mistresses of microeconomics with their balls and burlap and other mutual aid fundraising.

Disco will... never be over. Disco will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big and this important and this great, will never die.

A police force is like a lake. When you get out, you don't leave a hole.

The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.

the harder the struggle for existence among the men and women about us, the less the risk of their having the time or taking the pains to notice chance strangers who came among them.

Until our states become members of a large and effectively protective group they will continue to act like individuals and families in the hunting stage.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

We are unhappy when alone, and unhappy in society: we are like hedge-hogs clustering together for warmth, uncomfortable when too closely packed, and yet miserable when kept apart.

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best.

Agriculture, while generating civilization, led not only to private property but to slavery. In purely hunting communities slavery had been unknown; the hunter's wives and children sufficed to do the menial work.

When abundance comes, and the danger subsides, social cohesion is lessened, and individualism increases; communism ends where luxury begins.

If men were entirely social, man would stagnate; a certain alloy of individualism and competition is required to make the human species survive and grow.

A right is not a gift of God or nature but a privilege which it is good for the group that the individual should have.

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Now

From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best. (p.89/543)

If a man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he…thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

From whatever angle we approach our eternal political problem we monotonously reach the same conclusion: that the community should determine the ends to be pursued, but that only experts should select and apply the means; that choice should be democratically spread, but that office should be rigidly reserved for the equipped and winnowed best. (Chapter on Aristotle p.89/543)

He who steals from a citizen," said Cato, "ends his days in fetters and chains; but he who steals from the community ends them in purple and gold."17

when everything belongs to everybody nobody will take care of anything.

It implies a recognition by the individual that his life, liberty, and development depend upon social organization, and his willingness, in return, to adjust himself to the needs of the community.

Loskiel reported some Indian tribes of the northeast as "so lazy that they plant nothing themselves, but rely entirely upon the expectation that others will not refuse to share their produce with them. Since the industrious thus enjoy no more of the fruits of their labor than the idle, they plant less every year.