Quotes about Community
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.
- Joel Osteen
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
- Justin Welby
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
- Joseph Campbell
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
- Dorothy Day
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
- Oscar Wilde
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
- St. Augustine
The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of spirit in the form of time.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is a high cost of living to be paid by a Jew. He has to be exalted in order to be normal in a world that is neither propitious for nor sympathetic to his survival.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel