Quotes about Community
Either we should not pray at all, or thus absolutely and freely; and not every one for himself in particular alone.
- Marcus Aurelius
So it is that we have more respect for what our neighbours will think of us than we have for ourselves.
- Marcus Aurelius
In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.
- Marcus Aurelius
That which is not in the interests of the hive cannot be in the interests of the bee.
- Marcus Aurelius
In communities and individuals alike, excessive freedom topples over into excessive slavery. Extreme freedom produces a tyrant, along with the extremely harsh and evil slavery that goes with him.
- Cicero
They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.
- Margaret Atwood
Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested, he says, smiling blandly, and more arrests are anticipated.
- Margaret Atwood
The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.
- Margaret Atwood
Florida's not the hick town you keep saying it is," says Reynolds. "Times have changed; they've got good universities now and a great book festival! Thousands of people come to it!
- Margaret Atwood
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
- Mark McKinnon
My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
- Corrie Ten Boom