Quotes About Community

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

And all that tribe.

The people are a many-headed beast.

We are all driven into the same fold.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

S? nu d?m deci vina pe politicieni: r?ul începe cu noi, cei care distrugem natura, murd?rim str?zile, facem irespirabile blocurile, transform?m în haznale spa?iile publice ?i ne umilim cu sete ?i sadism semenii. R?ul începe de la scara blocului.

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.

He loved to be among people and talk to them, find out what they had done and what they believed in. He felt that everybody was a traveler on the same journey, and a person should be interested in what others had learned along the way. But the Public was a different matter. The Public was too delicate, too selfish and selfabsorbed, a loud collective Voice clamoring with complaints, demanding attention.

All of us dream of being part of something greater than ourselves. All of us want to make a contribution. The greatest contribution you make isn't in the money you give to charities. It isn't in the nonprofit foundations you establish. And it isn't in the work you do as a volunteer. Your greatest contribution to something greater, to the lives of others, comes in what you do from nine to five.

The individual is a cell in the social superorganism. When he feels he is no longer necessary to the larger group, he, too, begins to wither away. As

Good times can be just as damaging to peace here in the United States. When the economy goes up, murders do not go down, they rise.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead are the books you read and the people you're around.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Look at the Sad Lonely People Who Didn't Join a Book Group,

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

CSR can help business reach the goals of social justice and economic prosperity by creating welfare for a broad range of social groups, beyond the corporations and their shareholders.

what sanctities any space as a synagogue is a natter of what happens there, not where or what it is.