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"When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past."
- Ricks, Christopher

"Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."
- Ginsberg, Allen

"Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. "
- Beecher, Henry Ward

"When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels."
- Goodman, Paul

"A community is like the ones who govern it."
- Cicero, Marcus T.

"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."
- Nader, Ralph

"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."
- Prochnow, Herbert

"The community of living is the carriage of the Lord."
- Proverb, Hasidic

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
- Howe, Edgar Watson

"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
- Edison, Thomas A.

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
- Churchill, Winston

"Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units."
- Solanis, Valerie

"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
- Young, Brigham

"Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence."
- Augustine, St.

"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace."
- Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. "
- Lincoln, Abraham

"Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two."
- Bierce, Ambrose

" Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
- Wilde, Oscar

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
- Houston, Sam

"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
- Carnegie, Andrew

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
- Wells, H.G.

"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
- Veblen, Thorstein

"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
- Adler, Renata

"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth."
- Veblen, Thorstein

"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
- Kennedy, John F.

"Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent."
- Saussure, Ferdinand De

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
- Wilde, Oscar

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
- Adams, Henry Brooks

"People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community."
- Leo XIII

"World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
- Kennedy, John F.

"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. "
- Blackstone, Sir William

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
- Leopold, Aldo

"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."
- Irving, Washington

"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
- Hutchins, Robert M.

"No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. "
- Roosevelt, Theodore

"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
- Burke, Edmund

"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."
- Colton, Charles Caleb

"Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another."
- O'Casey, Sean

"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods"
- Veblen, Thorstein

"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
- King Jr. Martin Luther

"When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. "
- Aristotle

"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
- Wilde, Oscar

"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
- King Jr. Martin Luther

"The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations."
- Humphrey, Hubert H.

"The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate."
- Aristotle

"Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery."
- Cooper, James F.

"Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force."
- Freud, Sigmund

"Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
- Menzies, Robert

"Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination."
- Lewis, Wyndham

"How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what ? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us."
- Longden, John

"To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship."
- Owens, Jesse