Quotes about Community
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.
- Euripides
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
- GK Chesterton
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
- Helen Keller
Have but few friends though many acquaintances.
- Anonymous
Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.
- Anonymous
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
- CS Lewis
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Aristotle
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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 Jr.