Quotes about community and society

I have selected out various themes of quotations to make them a little easier to browse, all these quotes are about 'Community and society'.

After all is said and done, more is said than done. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
Integrity has no need of rules. (Albert Camus)
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. (Oprah Winfrey)
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. (Carl W. Buechner)
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently. (Nietzsche)
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. (John Steinbeck)
When you return to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the town you missed, but your childhood. (Earl Wilson)
The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes. (Wil Shipley)
Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw)
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error. It is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. (Justice Robert Jackson)
Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty. (Ben Franklin)
A gorgeous face catches our eye but a gorgeous personality catches our heart. (Unknown)
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Ghandi)
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. (William Hazlitt)
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks. (Will Durant)
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (Unknown)
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. (Victor Hugo)
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato)
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain. (Unknown)
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Alfred Adler)
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. (Unknown)
Years ago, my momma taught me that two wrongs don't make a right - but I soon figured out that three left turns do. (Jim Hightower)
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. (Edgar J. Mohn)
Try to avoid the most natural of all human tendencies. The nonchalant habit of resisting and rejecting out of hand, what we fail to appreciate or comprehend. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'. The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'. The three most important are - 'If you please'. The two most important are - 'Thank You'. And the most important single word of all is - 'You'. (Denis Waitley)
Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give to this world and one another. (Ram Dass)
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. (Noam Chomsky)
A nation that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Eisenhower)
Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly... you are doing the impossible. (Francis of Assisi)
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the stablished authorities are wrong. (Voltaire)
Give unto others with grace, to be noble is to be humble. (Unknown)
Be gentle with the earth. (Dalai Lama)
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world. (Anne Frank)
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. (Nelson Mandela)
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. (Amos Bronson Alcott)
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. (Pearl S. Buck)
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you. (Pericles)
You may only be someone in the world but to someone else, upi may be the world. (Unknown)
Marriage is the only union where you're unable to take your complaints to a delegate. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. (Albert Einstein)
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. (Adolph Hitler)
Help me never to judge another until I have walked a mile in his moccasins. (Indian prayer)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (Galileo Galilei)
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. (Aesop)
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. (John Wooden)
The difference between erotic and kinky is that one uses a feather, the other uses the whole chicken. (Unknown)
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. (Harriet Rubin)
All historical experience demonstrates the following - our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved. (Hans Kung)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. (Euripedes)
Injustice breeds contempt, out of which all revolution is born. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
False humility is as shallow as a pond without water. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work. (Lyanla Vanzant)
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. (William James)
Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results. (Unknown)
Great is the character and integrity of the person who stands their ground while the whole world is tumbling from under them. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
When we encounter someone greater than ourselves, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you encounter someone lesser than you, look within and examine your own self. (Unknown)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. (George Bernard Shaw)
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. (Albert Schweitzer)
The judgment of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are. (Terry McPhearson)
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. (Albert Einstein)
We can't leave peope in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. (Jane Godall)
If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. (William Blake)
Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune. (Jim Rohn)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln)
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Abba Eban)
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself. (Aristotle)
Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
You can only see others as clearly as you see yourself. (Unknown)
A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic. (Dresden James)
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Unknown)
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. (Robert A. Heinlein)
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. (Albert Einstein)
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. (Mabel Newcomber )
If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. (Chinese Proverb)
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement. (Grover Cleveland)
Everywhere, truly those of integrity stand apart. They the good don't chatter in hopes of favor or gains. When touched by pleasure or by pain the wise give no sign of highs or lows. (Unknown)
Free nations' are ruled by canon law. 'Dictators' govern by the barrel of a gun. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
What luck for the rulers that men do not think. (Adolph Hitler)
It is nobler to lose honor and save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. (David Borenstein)
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. (Margaret Chase Smith)
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. (Leonardo da Vinci)
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always. (Mahatma Gandhi)
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. (Marianne Williamson)
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. (Hadia Bejar)
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. (Martin Luther King)
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. (Basil W. Maturin)
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. (Will Rogers)
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. (Cicero)
Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. They may have different tastes. (George Bernard Shaw)
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein)
If you are seeking revenge, start by digging two graves. (Chinese proverb)
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. (Abba Eban)
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. (Abraham Lincoln)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence. (Hebrew proverb)
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. (Spike Milligan)
The measure of a person's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas Macaulay)
Be a witness, not a judge. Focus on yourself, not on others. Listen to your heart, not to the crowd. (Ma Zu)
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian. (Rabbi Harold Kushner)
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter Drucker)
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. (Chinese Proverb) Click here for illustrated quote
We all judge others, but we all hate it when others judge us. (Unknown)
Follow the three R's. Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions. (Dalai Lama)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer. (Unknown)
All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move. (Benjamin Franklin)
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. (Harriet Woods)
An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind. (Unknown)
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Ben Franklin)
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. (Hyman G. Rickover) [1900-1986]
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. (Alfred Adler)
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
A man should not act as a judge either for someone he loves or for someone he hates. For no man can see the guilt of someone he loves or the good qualities in someone he hates (Tractate Ketubbot) [Babylonian Talmud]
Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too. (Unknown)
All religions contain, like an apple, the same common core beliefs. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Everything can be taken from a man but...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Victor Frankl)
Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming. (Haim Ginott)
Even the most ignorant speak at least two languages: their native tongue and profane. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
� and the Lord said unto John, 'Come forth and you will receive eternal life'. But John came fifth, and won a toaster. (Unknown)
I have no desire to move mountains, construct monuments, or leave behind in my wake material evidence of my existence. But in the final recollection, if the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart... then in living - I have made my mark. (Thomas L. Odem, Jr.)
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. (Abraham Lincoln)
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. (Unknown)
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. (Linda Hogan) [writer]
Moral and spiritual decay have brought about the demise of more great nations (empires) than any invading enemy force, plague, famine and natural disasters combined. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King)
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. (Kin Hubbard)
None of us can do great things. We can only do a small thing with great love every day. (Mother Teresa)
The only normal people are the ones that you don't know very well. (Alfred Adler)
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi)
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines. (Krishnamurti)
We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. (Barack Obama)
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. (Albert Einstein)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)
A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having. (Alice Mary Hilton)
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. (Mark Twain)
This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. (William Shakespeare) [Hamlet]
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. (Christian Morganstern)
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. (Aneurin Bevan)
A loving person lives in a loving world, a hostile person lives in a hostile world, and everyone you meet is your mirror. (Unknown)
Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure? (Unknown)
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. (Josiah Stamp)
The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one. (Adolph Hitler)
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth. (Aesop) [Aesop's Fables]
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. (Robert M. Pirsig)
I have traveled to all of the world's continents but none less 'explored' or 'understood' than the human mind. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been comitted in the name of obedience than have been comitted in the name of rebellion. (C. P. Snow)
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln)
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. (Kahlil Gibran)
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other man's rights. (Abraham Lincoln)
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him? (Alec Guiness)
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. (Stanislav Grof)
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The tongue cuts sharper than any tooth. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body. (Elizabeth Stone)
All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. (William Shakespeare)
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. (Barack Obama)
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov)
It's not what you think of the 'World' that makes a 'world' of difference but what the 'World' thinks of you. (Joseph P. Martino) [(1937~) American Poet, Author]
Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. (Michael Moore)
People do not lack strength; they lack will. (Victor Hugo)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by what he uses to frighten you. (Eric Hoffer)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill) [former Priminister]
It is your prime responsibility to acquire useful knowledge from others and to apply it appropriately. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, but you do have to learn from those who did. (Gary Ryan Blair)
The best way to knock a chip off of your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. (Unknown)
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain)
A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on. (Mark Twain)
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. (Nelson Mandela)

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