Neighbor Quotes - Page 17

• Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

  David Mitchell

  Beloved, Virtue, Lord

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.22, Random House Group

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

  George Eliot

  People, Bravery, Might

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, People, Slander

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2693, Delphi Classics

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• So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

  Voltaire

  Country, Men, Greatness

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• and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Car, Ribbons

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• What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

  J. K. Rowling

  Doors, Funny Harry Potter, Next

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 21, 2003.

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• For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors - between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Sacrifice, Self

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Tree, Fence

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

  Benjamin Spock

  Common Sense, Experts, Common

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Offending, People

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

  James Dobson

  Teacher, Children, School

  James C. Dobson (1991). “How to Raise Children That Love the Lord”, Chariot Family Pub

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• Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Country, Sea, Turkeys

  Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

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• Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.

  Pope Paul VI

  Christian, Teacher, Mean

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• I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

  Rod Serling

  Dream, Reality, Destiny

  Rod Serling's speech at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, December 3, 1968.

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• When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.

  Star Parker

  Freedom, Responsibility, Caring

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• Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

  Byron Katie

  Writing, Judging, Four

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Teaching, Writing, Caring

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• Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mirrors, Self, Matter

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 6, p. 281, 1955 - 1975.

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• The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

  Max Frisch

  Demand, Accepting, Axioms

  Max Frisch (1958). “I'm not Stiller”, Vintage

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• The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Golden, Neurotic

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

  William McKinley

  Prayer, Blessing, Earth

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.550, tredition

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Liberty, May

  "Instead of a Book".

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• I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.

  Murray Bookchin

  Motivation, People, Progress

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