Community Quotes

“The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.”

“We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”

“If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.”

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”

“All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.”

“In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.”

“So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.”

“It is your friends who make your world.”

“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...”

“Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.”

“The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.”

“For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.”

“There where the course is,Delight makes all of the one mind,The riders upon the galloping horses,The crowd that closes in behind.”

“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”

“We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”

“We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.”

“There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.”

“It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.”

“A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well”

“There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.”

“When I play on my fiddle in DooneyFolk dance like a wave on the sea.”

“Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.”

“When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.”

“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”