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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." »William James
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"Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest..." »Roger Zelazny
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." »Jan Glidewell
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"Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art." »Pietro Aretino
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"Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers" »William S. Gilbert
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." »Oscar Wilde
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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." »Marian Wright Edelman
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"A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." »Andrew Carnegie
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"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." »Albert Einstein
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." »Albert Einstein
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"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." »Albert Einstein
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"The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed." »Mark Morrison-Reed
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"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father." »Clifton Paul Fadiman
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"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few." »John Masefield
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"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards
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"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." »George Washington
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"The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing." »John Dewey
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