Quotes About Community

I situate myself, and seat myself, And where you recline I shall recline, For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me. I loaf and curl up my tail I yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip patch." (From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP )

No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.

The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

Culture is "lived religion". It is the form that religion takes in the lives of men.

Culture is a sacred activity, an exercise in the sphere of religion.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Most Americans are very cool people.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

In my world there would be as many libraries as there are Starbucks.

I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a little number about a 7-Eleven in Asbury Park but write it in such a way that the entire U.S.A. can identify and slurp along with Bruce. Suck for the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-Eleven!

Once you have been on the outside, a part of you will always be out there.

I met a woman around the corner from the hotel who owns a bar on Essex. We talked for awhile. She used to see Johnny Thunders play whenever she could. She said that sometimes he was too messed up to do the show and the venue would kick him out. She and her friends would sit with him outside and he would play for them. Can you imagine?! That's a quintessential NYC experience. It's what makes this city so great.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.