Community Quotes

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

The primary things that people do on the Facebook is they use it to share with their friends and the people around them and their community, and they use it to keep in touch with people.

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

The EU is a community of values, not military buildups.

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.

I essentially get to represent my community on television.

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

Scientists should be doing a better job of guarding their own reputations and of the general scientific community.

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.