Quotes About Community

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.