Community Quotes

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

Community is where humility and glory touch.

The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake.

We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

... that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

There will always be good and bad in every community.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

Sanctification is a community project.

My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.