community Quotes

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Man is by nature a political animal.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.