Community Quotes

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

I think the world should be one community.

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.

The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy