Community Quotes

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds ...

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new...

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a s...

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me...

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right befo...

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calcula...

The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the...

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come ...

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I a...

But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men ...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e...

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give ...

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to ...

The church itself is a spiritual director. It tries to connect your story with God's story. Just to ...

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from w...

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, wh...

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit...

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbou...

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the titl...

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Wa...

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, ...

If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are stri...

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but ...

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people ...

Those who are weak have great difficulty finding their place in our society. The image of the ideal ...

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the...

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our...

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It ...

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot bu...

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken...

A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great t...

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a wa...

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and ab...

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either igno...

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive...

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of anoth...

Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote t...

I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or t...

Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, blac...

I do want to be involved in quality projects that say something positive about the Latino community.

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It...

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thin...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If...

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

Hm-m," he said. "Lookie, Ma. I been all day an' all night hidin' alone. Guess whoI been thinkin' abo...

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above th...

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, lab...

For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brot...

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to ...

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming...

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the con...

Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can le...

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towa...

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to ...

We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation res...

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with ...

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's w...

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to...

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directio...

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet t...

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow ...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal n...

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equal...

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each...

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - ...

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping ...

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed...

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern...

The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolu...

...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to...

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a communit...

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religi...

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came...

Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people," Maria said finally.