Quotes about Community
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
— Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
— Marcus Aurelius
To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.
— Marcus Aurelius
With each person you meet, remind yourself that you share a common humanity. You are members of the same family. They may not know this, but you do—so show them by the way you treat them.
— Marcus Aurelius
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