Quotes About Community

If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world, declared the Tin Woodman. Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, she said. The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends, was the answer.

Any friend of Dorothy, remarked the Cowardly Lion, must be our friend, as well. So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects. Have you breakfasted, Sir Horse?

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.

I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

The pace of change means that relationship is more important than ever before.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.