Sunday, February 8, 2009

QUOTES ABOUT COMMUNITY SPIRIT

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. Ralph Waldo Emerson

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. Robert McAfee Brown

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

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

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.
It's not. Dr. Seuss