Community Quotes

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

When you’re young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead. I will measure exactly the sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals.

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection… (and) where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

A community is like a ship; every one ought to be prepared to take the helm.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.