‘Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
—George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.
—Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) Polish Catholic Religious Leader
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
There’s a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be ‘good,’ to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
—Orson Scott Card (b.1951) American Author
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
—Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) American Diplomat, Academician
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community
—Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) Italian Catholic Priest, Philosopher, Theologian
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British Philosopher, Economist
Equal and exact justice to all: peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, and entangling alliances with none; the support of State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration of our domestic concerns, are the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
—Marian Wright Edelman (b.1939) American Activist, Advocate
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
—John W. Gardner (1912–2002) American Activist
The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.
—Hebrew Proverb
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) American Economist, Social Critic
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
—Eugene Ionesco (1909–94) Romanian-born French Dramatist
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
—Saul Alinsky (1909–72) American Community Organizer, Political Theorist
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. 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 what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
—Marianne Williamson (b.1952) American Activist, Author, Lecturer
When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
—Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
—Samuel Butler
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian Playwright
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 (1859–1952) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Educator
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes – so check your value to the community.
—Martin H. Fischer
Let there be a small country with few people …
Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs can be heard,
Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
—M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American Psychiatrist, Author
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
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.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
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