Neighbor Quotes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:30-31)

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor – the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others – the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of […]

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Drove up a newcomer in a covered wagon: ‘What kind of folks live around here?’ ‘Well, stranger, what kind of folks was there in the country you come from?’ ‘Well, they was mostly a lowdown, lying, thieving gossiping, backbiting kind lot of people.’ ‘Well, I guess, stranger, that’s about the kind of folks you’ll find […]