Community Quotes

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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. -- Jane Addams

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. -- Kofi Annan

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community”
-- St. Thomas Aquinas quotes (1225-1274)

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. -- William Baldwin

“It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual”
-- Jeremy Bentham ( Philosopher 1748-1832)

Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
-- Black Elk, (1863-1950)

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
-- Robert McAfee Brown

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
-- Frederick Buechner

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
-- Hugo Chavez

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
-- Cicero

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. -- Dorothy Day

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -- Eugene V. Debs

Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society. Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.
-- Eugene V. Debs, 1908

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. -- John Dewey

No man is an island...
-- John Donne

...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
-- John Donne

 

Community Quotes

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