Community Importance Quotes

#1. Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals ... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

#2. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

Sebastian Junger

#3. The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

Ben Edwards

#4. 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.

Robert Kennedy

#5. The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

Alister E. McGrath

#6. I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#7. Because it's of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.

David McCullough

#8. The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

Clarence Stein

#9. But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

Elizabeth Meriwether

#10. I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

Ken Mehlman

#11. My purpose is to serve a purpose to humanity; therefore I've made it my goal to educate myself to the best of my abilities so that I can convey to my children the importance of knowledge and personal responsibility

Travis Culliton

#12. International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

Koichiro Matsuura

#13. Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

David Ulevitch

#14. With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.

Michael Ende

#15. When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#16. In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#17. We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

Jane Bown