Quotes about Community
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
— Ronald Reagan
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
— Margaret Mead
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
— Ecclesiastes 4:9
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— Winnie the Pooh
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him
— CS Lewis
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
— Dag Hammarskjold