Quotes on community
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
"Independence"...[is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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.
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Haniel Long Quotes
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Herman Melville Quotes
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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Richard Whately Quotes
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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.
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Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
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.
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Holly Near Quotes