“The real community of man ... is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.” ~Allan Bloom

“An eye for an eye makes the world blind.” ~Gandhi

“Everyone has value.” ~Dr. Ben Carson

“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.” ~Christopher Ricks

“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.”
–Allen Ginsberg

“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.” ~Valerie Solanas

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.” ~Henrik Ibsen

“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures—in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“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.” ~Aldo Leopold

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” ~Pope John Paul II

“As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space—it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.” ~Hubert H. Humphrey

“Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.” ~William Lloyd Garrison

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main. … Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ~John Donne

“Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.” ~Claude Lévi-Strauss

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” ~Thomas Paine

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead



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