Community Quotes

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

When you have mega-corporations that have record profits, but they don't want to share even a little bit of that with their workers, we are actually putting our communities at peril.

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

Go home. Let me do my community service.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

Do we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so as to be an active part of our communities, or do we close in on ourselves, saying 'I have so many things to do, that's not my job'?