Neighbor Quotes

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 […]

Sophisticated listening devices are nothing new. They’re called “neighbors”.

The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live – this lost world […]

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.