Quotes about Community

You get three Venezuelans together and one will play the drums or the guitar and the other two will dance; there is no ill that can resist that treatment. Our parties, in contrast, seem like funerals: the men gather in a corner to talk business and the women die of boredom. Only the young dance, seduced by North American music, but as soon as they marry they turn solemn like their parents.

To love a place you must participate in the community and give back something in return for all you receive. I believe I have done that. There are many things I admire about the United States and others I would like to change, but isn't that always true? A country, like a husband, is always open to improvement.

They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.

It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.