Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Community

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

• ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Real, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brave Face, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

• I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Community, Slavery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics

• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

• It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2417, Delphi Classics

• The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, School, Eye

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