Quotes about Community

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. - Book VI, 54.

Do not be ashamed of help.

A human being has close kinship with the whole human race -- not a bond of blood or seed, but a community of mind. And you have forgotten this too, that every man's mind is a god and has flowed from that source; that nothing is our own property, but even our child, our body, our very soul have come from that source; that all is as thinking makes it so; that each of us lives only the present moment, and the present moment is all we lose.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.

To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.

With each person you meet, remind yourself that you share a common humanity. You are members of the same family. They may not know this, but you do—so show them by the way you treat them.

Either we should not pray at all, or thus absolutely and freely; and not every one for himself in particular alone.

So it is that we have more respect for what our neighbours will think of us than we have for ourselves.

In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

That which is not in the interests of the hive cannot be in the interests of the bee.

In communities and individuals alike, excessive freedom topples over into excessive slavery. Extreme freedom produces a tyrant, along with the extremely harsh and evil slavery that goes with him.