Quotes About Community

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.

Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten.

Foltern zerstört die zivile Basis des Zusammenlebens.

Ein Individuum, das sich nicht in einen bürgerlichen Zustand zwingen [lässt], [kann] den Segnungen des Begriffs "Person" nicht teilhaftig werden.

Sicherheit ist die gut ausbalancierte Freiheit aller.

Where God's Word is, there is God Himself, there God's Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.

The church's holiness must not be sacrificed for its catholicity, and the church's catholicity may not be surrendered in favor of its holiness. For in denying either, we lose both. Both attributes by nature characterize the one Christian church.

Eenarmigen moeten elkaar helpen bij het applaudisseren.

The majority of the people in the country don't care what color I am.