“When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out”
[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-1,00.html, September 6, 2011]
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Habib Bourguiba 29
Tunisian politician 1903–2000Related quotes
“It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.”
Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
Book I, epistle xviii, line 84
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Christopher
Source: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
“If I have to start fires, to put out fires, then so be it.”
Film Quotes
“906. Silkes and satins put out the fire in the chimney.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Hope for the future is the only way to put out these fires.”
Quotes, Our Larger Tasks (2002)
Context: The evil we now confront is not just the one-time creation of a charismatic leader and his co-conspirators, or even of a handful of regimes. What we deal with now is today's manifestation of an anger welling up from deep layers of grievance shared by many millions of people.
Military force alone cannot deal with this. Public diplomacy alone cannot drain this reservoir. What will be needed is a far reaching American strategy for encouraging reform, and for engaging day in and day out with societies that are trying to cast off the curse of bitter experience relived continuously. Hope for the future is the only way to put out these fires.
“676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Water at a distance does not put out a fire near at hand.”
Acqua lontana non spegne fuoco vicino.
Del Prencipe di Valacchia, p. 39.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 243.
“319. Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)