Quotes About Community

Because if what started out as me just trying to be truthful and tell it like it is has struck a chord with other people feeling just as flawed and confused as I do – and if in some small way it's helped by showing them they're not alone; that I'm here and I hear them – then that's the biggest bonus of all.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into.

The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share.

All for one, one for all, that is our motto.

Il peut sembler extraordinaire, étant donné les circonstances dans lesquelles nous vivions, de penser que nous nous réunissions fréquemment chez moi pour traduire le Pentateuque, plus un commentaire, en roumain. (p. 124)

It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious.

In our neighbourhood you believed the same things as everybody else, you wore the same clothes as everybody else and you planned to go into the same job as your father.

The public were not to be consulted on whether they wished to have their cities and towns torn down and rebuilt in an entirely original and untested style with no connection to what had gone before.

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Am I Aboriginal, or how much of an Aboriginal am I?

How could any of the swamp people explain this comfortable face they saw on television that held a universal magic capable of mirroring the faces of countless millions of ordinary people, who like themselves, had been duped by their own sense of community into recognizing some uncanny likeness and affinity between themselves and Warren Finch?

Obviously, things work best when parents and teachers are helping kids to become good people—and, better yet, when they're actively supporting one another's efforts.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring

Our whole way of living inhibits that necessary intimate contact with our fellow men, which is essential for the development of the science and art of knowing human nature. Since we do not find sufficient contact with our fellow men, we become their enemies. Our behavior towards them is often mistaken, and our judgments frequently false, simply because we do not adequately understand human nature.

In truth, if I were asked to say briefly what Pessimism is, I should say it is disappointed Egotism; and the description will hold good, whether we apply it to an individual, to a community, or to an age.