Wendell Berry Quotes

My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

The great object of the civil government is the improvement of those who are members of the civil compact.

New societies need civic saints.

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

I will rebuild the people's trust in government and create a stable foundation for Taiwan's future development.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

Strong communities shape their own futures.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

Given the fragility of contemporary civil and urban life … our problem is to solve the puzzle of how to live together in healthy, diverse communities.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating.

My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

When you don't have sport, it's like, oh, what do we fall back onto? And I think Nelson Mandela was the first person to really say that: sport unites people in a way that nothing else does. And if you take sport away, then I don't know really what we have.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.