Quotes on community
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems.
Fischer, Martin H.
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Beecher, Henry Ward
"Independence"...[is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Shaw, George Bernard
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.
Long, Haniel
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Melville, Herman
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Whately, Richard
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
Shaw, George Bernard
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
Johnson, Lady Bird
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community.
Fischer, Martin H.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
McLaughlin, Mignon
The building of friendship, family, community and love is more complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Near, Holly