(736 quotes found)
“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”
George Eliot
“people don't realize that those with addictions are our own ... our neighbors even, and those who are otherwise successful.”
John Driscoll
“AGITATOR, n. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors --to dislodge the worms.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.”
John Locke
“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement”
George Bancroft
“The people who are bus drivers and custodians live in the district. They're my friends and they're my neighbors. They live and work in the community and that's important to me. They support the community and the community should support them.”
Jeffrey Grodi
“Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.”
Quentin Crisp
“We care deeply about our friends and neighbors.”
Dan Quayle
“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.”
