Samuel Johnson Quotes About Community

• Men become friends by a community of pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Community, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.98

• There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Community, Care

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.228

• There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

  Samuel Johnson

  Community, May, Communism

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.192

• The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Numbers, People

• Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Community, Good Things, Quotations

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