Quotes About Community

any community or family discussion, those who are the first to introduce concern for empathy feel powerless, and are trying to use the togetherness force of a regressed society to get those whom they perceive to have power to adapt to them.

we had evolved to grub around within a few kilometres of the same village, in the same time zone, under the same fixed stars.

Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.

This party comes from the grass roots. It has grown from the soil of the people's hard necessities.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Les loups mêmes comprennent qui ne se mangent pas entre eux.

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

I believe in one thing — that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?