Community Quotes
Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.
There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.
All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.
I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.
"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.
Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.
What is happening now is that the number of people who are not strong enough or do not feel strong enough to decide to live without the security provided by the community or the state, is going up.
Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.
The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148
We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.
Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps
A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.
Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
When we establish human connections within the context of sharedexperience we create community wherever we go.
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.