Community Quotes

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets...

We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew,...

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and ...

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicia...

We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning o...

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting ea...

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and agai...

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. The...

The continuous work of our life,” says Montaigne, “is to build death.” He quotes the Latin poets: Pr...

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equalit...

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and...

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak i...

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a se...

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands ap...

The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Pr...

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who...

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work t...

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that...

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If ...

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and tha...

When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you ...

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop commu...

I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservativ...

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conserv...

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conse...

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

...aconsejaría yo a los que tienen oración, en especial al principio, procuren amistad y trato con o...

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...

Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeob...

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecu...

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest...

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people aro...

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consola...

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their o...

If the foreman had no experience in bossing a mob, they had no experience in being one. Members of a...

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. ...

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the d...

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called...

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean,...

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...

Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both d...

I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be fin...

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of ti...

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no ...

I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lift...

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart...

I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really wa...

My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathere...

Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes...

Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance ...

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' ...

We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials,...

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and lan...

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It ...

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest...

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of huma...

Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high sal...

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each oth...

It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent pl...

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sym...

In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive,...

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of...

Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body rea...

Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems l...

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized y...

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man a...

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our po...

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community ...

Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong wit...

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practice...

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are ...

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something fo...

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community t...

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate...

So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or t...

In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be di...

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves a...

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra...

Today it is hardly possible for any group to remain so isolated from others who have different value...

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the...

I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D....

We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, com...