Community Quotes

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God’s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show a side that we don't see.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially...just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.

It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.