community quotes

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.