One friend in a lifetime ismuch; two are many; three are hardly possible.Friendship needs a certainparallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.20.

The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual personswhoare considered asconstituting as it were its members.The interest of the community then, Bentley is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.

-Bentham,Jeremy
  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch.1.

Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community Billings consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

   The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.

-Child,Julia McWilliams
  On studying cookbooks dating back to the1400s in the Library of Congress. In Memory and Imagination, PBS  TV, 15  Aug. Chinese poet and civil servant about whom very little is known. He  wrote  a  series  of  three  poems  on  his  separation  from  his wife, the result of a posting to Beijing.

If Her Majesty's Government be really desirous of seeing a well-conducted community spring up in these Colonies, the social wants of the people must be considered† For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony veryappropriately called 'God's police'öwives and little childrenögood and virtuous women. 213

-Chisholm, Caroline ne¤  e Jones
Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered; in a Letter, Dedicated, by Permission, to Earl Grey,17  Jun. The phrase 'God's police' was adopted by Australian feminist  Anne

The community lacksgoods and a million and a quarter people lack work. It is certainly one of the highest functions of national financeand credittobridgethegap between the two.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Letter to Otto Niemeyer, 22 Feb. Collectedin D E Moggridge Maynard Keynes (1992).

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.Healthycitizens arethegreatest asset any country can have.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech on BBC radio, 21 Mar.

What life have you if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of God.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Choruses from The Rock.

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Quoted in Gordon Ball (ed)  Allen Ginsberg:  Journals Mid- Fifties (1995),'Meditations on Record Keeping by Poet, Transcribed by Editor'.

Wearepart ofthe communityof Europe, and wemust do our dutyas such.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech,10  Apr.

We take it as a fundamental psychological rule of any modern community that, when its real income is increased, it will not increase its consumption by an 466 equal absolute amount.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

Effective research scarcely begins before a scientific community thinks it has acquired firm answers to questions like the following: What are the fundamental entities of which the universe is composed? How do these interact with each other and with the senses? What questions may legitimately be asked about such entities and what techniques employed in seeking solutions?

-Kuhn,Thomas S(amuel)
  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

-Mill,John Stuart
  On Liberty.

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

-Ricardo, David
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our dutyas such.

-Marquis of
  Speech at Caernarvon,10 Apr. In TheTimes,11 Apr.

La presse exerce encore un immense pouvoir en Ame¤  rique. Elle fait circuler la vie politique dans toutes les portions de ce vaste territoire. C'est elle dont l'½il toujours ouvert met sans cesse a'   nu les secrets ressorts de la politique, et force les hommes publics a'   venir tour a' tour compara|"tre devant le tribunal de l'opinion. C'est elle qui rallie les inte¤  re"  ts autour de certaines doctrines et formule le symbole des partis; c'est par elle que ceux-ci se parlent sans se voir, s'entendent sans e"  tre mis en contact. The presshas enormous power in America.It isthe press that circulates political life through all parts of this vast territory. Its eye is always open, and making known the secret springs of politics, thus forcing public men to appear before the tribunal of public opinion. It is the press which rallies the interests of the community round certain principles and forms the creed of different parties. Through the press these parties can speak to each other without seeing each other, can listenwithout meeting.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
^40  De la De¤  mocratie en Ame¤  rique (Democracy in America), vol.1, pt.2, ch.3.