Community Is Quotes

#1. The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Johnny Weir

#2. Community is like peace in that it is a result instead of an action. Peace results from acts of justice and behaviors of love. Community also emerges out of loving behaviors - like compassion and an embrace and forgiveness - and out of acts of justice.

Scot McKnight

#3. To build an effective community, everyone must realize that their community is bigger than them.

Idowu Koyenikan

#4. Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].

Ariana Kelly

#5. 'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

Jim O'Heir

#6. The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

Gregg Sulkin

#7. Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Lajos Kossuth

#8. A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness
incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

Fran Lebowitz

#9. The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Wendell Berry

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

Mark Twain

#11. A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

Yehuda Berg

#12. Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

Scott Turow

#13. I realize that the Qur'an teaches Muslims that the distinction between questioning Islam and attacking the Muslim community is impossible to maintain,

Peter Townsend

#14. Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.

Christopher Poole

#15. I don't know if community is something you do or don't believe in,

Maria Semple

#16. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

Andrew Carnegie

#17. Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

Henri Nouwen

#18. Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

Parker J. Palmer

#19. Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

Jean Vanier

#20. I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

Pearl Cleage

#21. Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home ... To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths ...

Rollo May

#22. It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.

Joshua Roman

#23. That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Aldo Leopold

#24. Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#25. A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Oscar Wilde

#26. When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.

R.A. Torrey

#27. A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph

#28. The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

Amanda Beard

#29. Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy
in fact, the opposite.

Jean Vanier

#30. Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.

Richard Cornuelle

#31. There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#32. The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

Leonard Bloomfield

#33. The persistent appetite for human beings for community is what we should all be dedicated to.

Bob Maguire

#34. The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

Megan Hilty

#35. A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals
a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

Carroll Quigley

#36. The 'Survivor' community is very tight. I mean very tight.

Jenna Morasca

#37. The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Bill Hybels

#38. Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples Understanding the nature of groups helps you

Ed Stetzer

#39. By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#40. The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

#41. The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

Gijs De Vries

#42. I think there's a temptation to try to think of people who don't vaccinate as a homogenous community, but I'm not convinced that's true. I'm not even sure that the word 'community' is totally accurate there, you know.

Eula Biss

#43. Building the inquiry community with students will take time. An inquiry community is made up of students with an inquiry mind set.

Carol C. Kuhlthau

#44. The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

James Martineau

#45. Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

Bill Maher

#46. The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future

Stefan Molyneux

#47. Community is where humility and glory touch.

Henri Nouwen

#48. Though every community is different, my personal rule is pretty much the same: It's O.K. to feel like an idiot going in as long as you don't sound like an idiot coming out.

Katherine Boo

#49. I'm motivated by my love to share and teach. I love sharing things that inspire me, and I love connecting with people. Being a part of a community is in the millennial DNA.

Michelle Phan

#50. The popular idea of a Potions expert within the wizarding community is of a brooding, slow-burning personality: Snape, in fact, conforms perfectly to the stereotype.

J.K. Rowling

#51. My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

Orhan Pamuk

#52. A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

Ellen Ochoa

#53. Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Claudia Alta Johnson

#54. Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

Jon Johansen

#55. The building block of every community is family.

Paul Singer

#56. The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

Moshe Katsav

#57. We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

Martin Jacques

#58. No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

Stephen King

#59. The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.

Erik Naggum

#60. The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.

Reza Aslan

#61. I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

Kenneth P. Thompson

#62. The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

Jenny McCarthy

#63. Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers.

Nancy Kassebaum

#64. I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

Joe Slovo

#65. A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals.

Augustine Of Hippo

#66. The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Leon Panetta

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

Clarence Stein

#68. An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.

M. Scott Peck

#69. See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.

Sara Baume

#70. You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#71. A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Robert Reed

#72. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Henri Nouwen

#73. The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.

Erwin McManus

#74. To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Robin Hobb

#75. Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Brad Feld

#76. Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet.

Ruth Westheimer

#77. The naturalness of life ... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

Barbara Hepworth

#78. Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#79. In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence,

Jamsetji Tata

#80. If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Magic Johnson

#81. So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

Terence McKenna

#82. If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed as its foundations, let it say so openly, both to the people of Bosnia and to the people of the world. Let it proclaim a new code of behavior in which force will be the first and the last argument.

Alija Izetbegovic

#83. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Mark Helprin

#84. A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

Grover Norquist

#85. The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having "things." It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things.

Thomas Merton

#86. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Aristotle.

#87. I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

Dani Shapiro

#88. A community is like the ones who govern it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#89. A coat is not worth eight times as much as a hat to the community because it takes eight times as long to make it ... The community is willing to devote eight times as long to the making of a coat because it will be worth eight times as much to it

Mark Skousen

#90. It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

Tila Tequila

#91. The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

Benjamin Graham

#92. I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.

Nikolay Alexeyev

#93. 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

#94. The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

Nana Mouskouri

#95. In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

Alveda King

#96. In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Peter Drucker

#97. The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

Shane Claiborne

#98. I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

Blake Judd

#99. To a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

Sharon Olds

#100. The more time I spent on the site the more I came to think of Wales as some kind of Queen Ant, letting the vast colony go about its work, at the centre of a system where the knowledge of the community is infinitely larger than the sum of experience of all its individuals.

Jimmy Wales