#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

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#anything #cease #neighbors #their #themselves

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#even #neighbors #still #their #these

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#back #basic #basic rights #choices #choose

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#exception #first #least #neighbors #silently

If love shows itself in the eyes, then my neighbors love me: I’m on their watch list. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #love #neighbors #funny

Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better off without them. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gossiping #humor #neighbors #voyeurism

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ↗

— James Goldsmith

#immediate #neighbors #tolerance #tremendous #virtue

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #family #god #idolatry #love