Neighbor Quotes - Page 23

• Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

  George H. W. Bush

  Daughter, Memorial Day, Brother

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• No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Ease, Forget

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press (1931). “The City of God”, p.1710, Aeterna Press

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• We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

  Jennifer James

  Confused, Selfish, Love You

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.

  William O. Douglas

  Philosophy, Believe, Political

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• If there is to be peace in the world,
  There must be peace in the nations.
  If there is to be peace in the nations,
  There must be peace in the cities.
  If there is to be peace in the cities,
  There must be peace between neighbors.
  If there is to be peace between neighbors,
  There must be peace in the home.
  If there is to be peace in the home,
  There must be peace in the heart.

  Laozi

  Peace, Home, Heart

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• We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

  Betty Williams

  Peace, Memories, Tragedy

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.487

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• If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

  William E. Simon

  Gun, Government, Liberty

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• Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Dream, Fashion, Luxury

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• We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Garden, Community, Levels

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• If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Community, Looks, World

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• First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Men, Atheism

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 17

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• The most courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the sky, born at one time and space, to be ourselves. Everybody is our neighbor. All we have to do is say, "I am with you." When you start being one with everybody, then you are actually with God, because if you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Stars, Sky, Space

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• Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, Community, Enemy

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• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him? In this way you will achieve two things; you will heal yourself and your neighbor with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. `Judge not, and ye shall not be judged."

  John Climacus

  Spiritual, Brother, Fall

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• Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Reflection, Thinking

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• When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Too Late, News, Ill

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• Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Dream, Attitude, Sky

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Stranger, Borrowing Money, Lending Money

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• The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, World

  Address at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 10 June 1940

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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

  Drake

  Friendship, Family, Angel

  "Shot for Me". Song by Drake, 2011.

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• When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

  Garry Kasparov

  Kings, Queens, Fire

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• The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Drinking, Wine, Hobbies

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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