--- title: "10 Wells Quotes By Dorothy Day" description: "10 Wells quotes by Dorothy Day. Plus more from Dorothy Day and more Wells sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/dorothy-day-1629_communities_communities-are-made-up-of-the-unlovable_1568251.png" --- > [Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/communities-are-made-up-of-the-unlovable-as-well-as-the-lovable/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/dorothy-day-1629_communities_communities-are-made-up-of-the-unlovable_1568251.png) > [Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/think-what-the-world-could-look-like-if-we-took-care-of-the-poor-even/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/883/dorothy-day-1629_bibles_think-what-the-world-could-look-like-if_1802093.png) > [Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/dear-god-please-enlarge-our-hearts-to-love-each-other-to-love-our/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/944/dorothy-day-1629_dear_dear-god-please-enlarge-our-hearts-to-lo_206948.png) > [Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/idealism-in-the-young-i-guess-i-m-saying-is-curiosity-as-well-as/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/dorothy-day-1629_curiosity_idealism-in-the-young-i-guess-i-m-saying_100341.png) > [I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-believe-that-we-must-reach-our-brother-never-toning-down-our/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/dorothy-day-1629_asks_i-believe-that-we-must-reach-our-brother_2537948.jpg) > [We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-are-all-called-to-be-saints-st-paul-says-and-we-might-as-well-get/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/834/dorothy-day-1629_bourgeois_we-are-all-called-to-be-saints-st-paul-s_721181.png) > [It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/it-is-we-ourselves-that-we-have-to-think-about-no-one-else-that-is/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/dorothy-day-1629_attention_it-is-we-ourselves-that-we-have-to-think_2678450.png) > [We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-want-no-revolution-we-want-the-brotherhood-of-men-we-want-men-to/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/dorothy-day-1629_brotherhood_we-want-no-revolution-we-want-the-brothe_431077.png) > [The theoretician of the Marxist revolution in Cuba certainly wasn't Castro. It was Don Carlos Rafaelo Rodriguez. He was the theoretician and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-theoretician-of-the-marxist-revolution-in-cuba-certainly-wasn-t/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f88/dorothy-day-1629_believe_the-theoretician-of-the-marxist-revoluti_531735.png) > [What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/what-we-would-like-to-do-is-change-the-world-make-it-a-little-simpler-2/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f3/dorothy-day-1629_around-the-world_what-we-would-like-to-do-is-change-the-w_1689446.jpg) ## Other authors on Wells ## More by Dorothy Day > [“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/there-was-no-attack-on-religion-because-people-were-generally/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-must-recognize-the-fact-that-many-nazis-marxists-and-fascists/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [“Now don't think I've lost my mind - but I'll tell you, I'll look at some of the cards I have, some of Van…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/now-don-t-think-i-ve-lost-my-mind-but-i-ll-tell-you-i-ll-look-at-some/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-sexual-revolution-is-a-complete-rebellion-against-authority/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/idealism-in-the-young-i-guess-i-m-saying-is-curiosity-as-well-as/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/voluntary-poverty-isn-t-going-around-with-some-burlap-bag-around-you/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/women-think-with-their-whole-bodies-and-they-see-things-as-a-whole/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/my-whole-life-so-far-my-whole-experience-has-been-that-our-failure/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/i-think-one-of-the-things-we-must-constantly-keep-in-mind-is-if/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/it-is-only-through-religion-that-communism-can-be-achieved-and-has/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-communists-in-cuba-didn-t-assist-castro-in-his-revolution-they/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/dear-god-please-enlarge-our-hearts-to-love-each-other-to-love-our/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [A conversion is a lonely experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/a-conversion-is-a-lonely-experience/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [The sense is always that community is natural to people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/the-sense-is-always-that-community-is-natural-to-people/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) > [“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/we-must-practice-the-presence-of-god-he-said-that-when-two-or-three/) [Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wells/dorothy-day/#itemlist", "name": "10 Wells Quotes By Dorothy Day", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dorothy Day" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/communities-are-made-up-of-the-unlovable-as-well-as-the-lovable/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/dorothy-day-1629_communities_communities-are-made-up-of-the-unlovable_1568251.png", "contentUrl": 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