Community quotes

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◆ One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

- Stendhal100

◆ The roar of an angry crowd is much louder than that of a lion.

- Vikrant Parsai100

◆ It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

- Jeremy Bentham99

◆ A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

- Aldo Leopold99

◆ Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

- Howard Thurman99

◆ A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

- Henrik Ibsen99

◆ A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living

- Rudolf Steiner99

◆ A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

- A Philip Randolph99

◆ If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

- Edward S Herman99

◆ There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

- Oliver Tambo99

◆ 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 Peck99

◆ The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

- Virginia Hamilton99

◆ Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

- St Thomas Aquinas99

◆ Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.

- Martin Luther King Jr99