Quotes About Community

#1. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Robert Breault

#2. I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

Terry Tempest Williams

#3. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.

Mollie Marti

#4. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Sara Bonnett Stein

#5. The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

Francis Schaeffer

#7. If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

Immanuel Kant

#8. I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.

John Amaechi

#9. Rule #1: No cut or compromise should be suggested by ANY member of the community. This includes the music coalition, music educators, and the music supervisor.
Suggest a cut or compromise, and you become responsible for the decision.

John Benham

#10. The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.

Lynn Johnston

#11. If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

John Zerzan

#12. I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

Thomas Sadoski

#13. Many churches have molded their programs around the community - not the Word of God.

Billy Graham

#14. Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

Alexis Ohanian

#15. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

Orson Scott Card

#16. I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it.

Tyler Oakley

#17. I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to contribute, not only artistically, but in some practical purpose, for the benefits of the community.

Gil Scott-Heron

#18. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.

Wade Davis

#19. Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.

Jen Hatmaker

#20. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.

Benjamin Booker

#21. Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

William E. Gladstone

#22. I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is absolutely ridiculous. There's not a black-white divide in Ferguson.

James Knowles III

#23. The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

Solomon Ortiz

#24. The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences.

Ronald Kessler

#25. Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.

Barack Obama

#26. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#27. The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

Alexander Lowen

#28. Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Joe Biden

#29. There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the development community that can really craft the solutions and make sure we are safe.

Edward Snowden

#30. There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Mark Shields

#31. Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

Lewis B. Smedes

#32. It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas ... And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

Terence McKenna

#33. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.

Ashleigh Slater

#34. The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels." I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? "People read.

Richard Feynman

#35. Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

Bianca Jagger

#36. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

Ellen Lupton

#37. One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

Sandra Cisneros

#38. You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

Jaime Zevallos

#39. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.

George H. W. Bush

#40. In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

John Buchanan Robinson

#41. Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.

Pope Francis

#42. I don't want the Latino community to think I think the reason Latino films are not doing well is because of us. It is not fully our responsibility.

Gina Rodriguez

#43. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

David Pietrusza

#44. I know the community mostly for its art and culture ... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes ... it feels like home.

Erykah Badu

#45. In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away.

Morgan Spurlock

#46. So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

Elton John

#47. The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

Fritjof Capra

#48. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#49. I dressed up like a crazy pharaoh for you, man!

Troy Barnes

#50. What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. We're hoping that this will also be the key to starting community events in a place where the whole community can come together. We've been working with the town on the total renovation.

Andy Kaufman

#52. Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."

Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#53. When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

Tony Hawk

#54. The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.

Chuck Hagel

#55. By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.

Ilchi Lee

#56. We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#57. The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

Angela Merkel

#58. The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures ... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

Thomas Berry

#59. If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.

Lindsay Fox

#60. We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

Helen Fisher

#61. Community is the place where are revealed all the darkness and anger, jealousies and rivalry hidden in our hearts. Community is a place of pain, because it is a place of loss, a place of conflict, and a place of death. But it is also a place of resurrection.

Jean Vanier

#62. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

Aeriel Miranda

#63. The Minted mission is to be a community that supports designers from all over the world and provides them with an opportunity to be discovered and build their careers.

Mariam Naficy

#64. A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

Lisa Bonet

#65. Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community

Tony Blair

#66. Failure in training identifies weaknesses so as to prevent them in the field, because as the common saying goes in the tactical community, "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." We live by that code.

Gary J. Byrne

#67. The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.

Daniel Snyder

#68. I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

Harrison Ford

#69. We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic is in that connection, community, Sierra. We are interdependent.

Daniel Jose Older

#70. Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.

Bell Hooks

#71. The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

Dillon Burroughs

#72. Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.

Jamie Dornan

#73. Capitalism , as Marx defined it, is a system in which productive wealth is privately owned. Communism (which Marx proposed as an alternative) is one in which productive wealth is owned by the community, or by the nation on behalf of the people.

Richard Heinberg

#74. By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

John Ashcroft

#75. A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

William Julius Wilson

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

Ken Mehlman

#77. I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Emma Lazarus

#78. Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is ready to hear; an insult expresses something it doesn't want to consider.

Henry Jenkins

#79. The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them

James Johnson

#80. We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Ray Bradbury

#81. Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.

Dorothy Day

#82. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Stephen Gardiner

#83. You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

William P. Young

#84. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Walter Lippmann

#85. Some bookstores want you to believe they're a community center, like they need to host a cookie-making class in order to sell you some Proust.

David Levithan

#86. Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Xavier Becerra

#87. Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#88. The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#89. Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Robert Kennedy

#90. 'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community.

Darell Hammond

#91. My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

Andre Braugher

#92. Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

Alan Hirsch

#93. The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

Irwin Redlener

#94. Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he lives, for the nation, and for the whole world

Dalai Lama

#95. The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime is fought best not by chasing it, but by facing it before it can become a completed act.

Crime is fought best at the scene of the violence.

John Longenecker

#96. Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

Steven Pinker

#97. Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.

Barack Obama

#98. The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.

Tripp York

#99. The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

Lily Cole

#100. I was only one person among many. None of us made a difference individually, but together we all did." It was the true meaning of community.

Danielle Steel