community Quotes

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

It's clearly better for property to be privately owned, but for its use to be shared; and the main job of the lawgiver is to create this kind and generous attitude in people.

A community is formed to allow people to live, and it continues to exist so they can live well.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good,... ...

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot... ...

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

The best political community is one where the middle class has control and is larger than both other classes.

"Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent... ...