Quotes about Community

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.

there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to others?

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?