Wendell Berry Quotes

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

If we don't help each other, who will?

What keeps a nation strong is really the community. It is about people helping each other.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

It Takes A Village

… the woman whose husband makes twelve hundred dollars a year may have a couple of hours a day which she could sell in return for some service which she wishes to buy. There ought to be a reciprocity exchange in every town of any size where these exchanges could be arranged for. Nothing more than an extension of the old community way of living when everybody got together for barn raisings, and husking bees and each individual's special talent was called upon and everyone earned in one way or another what they got.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens.

When we all help each other out, when we stand together, we are stronger together.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.