4 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.

Amos, Tori

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

Dever, J. A.

The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.

Proverb, Hasidic

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.

Veblen, Thorstein