Community Quotes - Page 29

• I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging of the garden it would have been finished long ago - whereas I don't believe a garden is ever finished. They have all gone now, thank heaven.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Friendship, Believe, Garden

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.34, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Kissing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.71

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• This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Men

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 11, Ralph Manheim translation, 1925.

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• If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should.

  Jim Moran

  Strong, War, Thinking

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• The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Humanity, Together

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Safety, Special, Comfort

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• One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Animal, Two

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.502, Library of America

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• We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.

  Betty Eadie

  Spiritual, Powerful, Unique

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

  Desmond Tutu

  Play, Symphony, Would Be

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• No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

  Martin Luther

  Help And Support, May, Helping

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• There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

  Tom Petty

  Integrity, Real, Rocks

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. October 2, 2017.

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• So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Violation, Property

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons”, p.206, Oxford University Press

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• Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

  Howard Stern

  Heart, Medicine, Sick

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• I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

  M. Scott Peck

  Moving, Dubious, Principles

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• People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.

  George MacDonald

  People, Next, Moments

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• Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Diversity, Choices

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge

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• And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Growing Up, War, Media

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

  Don Hewitt

  Running, Hands, Cnn

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• Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Majority, Lax

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• People are living books. The real library of life is community.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Book, People

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, India, Fading

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage

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• We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Support, Healthy, Needs

  "Sugar Babies: The Rise of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes in Children" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

  Beth Richardson Gutcheon

  Children, Book, Thinking

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• The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.

  Learned Hand

  Law, Important, Would Be

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

  John W. Gardner

  Finals, Garbage, Misery

  1969 In the NewYork Times, 9 Oct.

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