Quotes for All
I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good… I don’t think I’m a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they’ll come back and … Read more
A smile is just such an amazing thing. And to think that some of those people can now smile because they can see you, that gives me that sort of charge, energy… that’s what powers up my batteries. That’s the joy that I have and that keeps me going. That’s my rocket fuel, I suppose. … Read more
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as … Read more
Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations. G. Frank Lawlis
Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow’s standard for today’s youth. Ezra Taft Benson
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have – the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, … Read more
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable. Evo Morales
We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors’ models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty. Evo Morales
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there. Everett Dirksen
There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: struggle is the highest form of song. I love that. We are in the struggle. It’s like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It’s not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women’s … Read more