#neighbor

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #bible #generally #love #neighbors

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people. ↗

— Sela Ward

#between #care #caring #exchanges #fed

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ↗

— Mae West

#devastating #easier #happens #love #much

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#friends #neighborhood #people #stood #these

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #constantly #creates #day #effective

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#bike #city #depending #driven #exercising

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#because #believed #claus #come #dark

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#himself #his #looking #man #mostly