Community Quotes
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.
I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.
I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.
I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.
If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.
It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.
Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.