Community Quotes

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.

America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

Saints cannot exist without a community

I think conservatives should be confident in our beliefs and go push them everywhere we can and go to non-traditional communities. It's a no-brainer.

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.