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Community

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. – Hubert H. Humphrey

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. – Lady Bird Johnson

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. – Adlai E. Stevenson

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors. – Elbert Hubbard

In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s. – Richard Whately

The community of living is the carriage of the Lord. – Proverb

Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where theyd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people. – Ella Baker

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – Allan Bloom

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed. – Samuel Butler

Theres a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be good, to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. – Orson Scott Card

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. – Anthony DAngelo

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem – J. A. Dever

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. – Benjamin Disraeli

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. – John W. Gardner

Being in a pageant is not just about beauty. Its more about service to the community and being a role model and making a difference. Its being proud of your city. Its all what you put into it… – Chantel Giamanco

When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! – Soren Kierkegaard