Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


In the end; poverty; putridity and pestilence; work; wealth and worry; health; happiness and hell; all simmer down into village problems. ~Martin H. Fischer


We cannot always build the future for our youth; but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society; each of us needs to understand himself and understand others; take care of others and be taken care of himself. ~Haniel Long


I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live; it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die; for the harder I work the more I live. ~George Bernard Shaw


The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~Hubert H. Humphrey


A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good; but for neglecting his neighbor's. ~Richard Whately


Independence... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another; every soul of us on earth. ~G.B. Shaw; Pygmalion; 1912


One is a member of a country; a profession; a civilization; a religion. One is not just a man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry; Wartime Writings 1939-1944; translated from French by Norah Purcell


A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~Martin H. Fischer


While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few; it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. ~Lady Bird Johnson


Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


On this shrunken globe; men can no longer live as strangers. ~Adlai E. Stevenson


Independence... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another; every soul of us on earth. ~G.B. Shaw; Pygmalion; 1912


We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. ~Herman Melville