Quotes about communities

I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.

— Tori Amos

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem

— J. A. Dever

The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.

— Hasidic Proverb

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

— Thorstein Veblen