Community Quotes · Page 106

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

— Walter Lippmann

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

— Clara Mamet

I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

— Olly Alexander

If you love the planet or the neighborhood - you're finding ways to satisfy the soul of the planet or satisfy the…

— Michael Franti

I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

— Jose Peralta

The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done.

— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

We intend to remake the Gentiles - what the Communists are doing in Russia.

— Menachem Begin

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

— Timothy Keller

Certainly when I was starting, it required being in a community where, when you tried to rent a building, and they looked…

— Marc Randolph

When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's…

— Marian Wright Edelman

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are…

— Malaak Shabazz

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and…

— Dorothy Allison

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to…

— Randy Alcorn

We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will…

— Malcolm X

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity…

— Nick Offerman

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the…

— Karen DeCrow

If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that…

— Henry Giroux

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and…

— Issa Rae

“We are also brought into the church-community as a result of Christ’s death on the cross—a community of the forgiven, who should…

— Stephen J. Nichols

There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These…

— Russell Cornell Leffingwell

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my…

— Emeril Lagasse

I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of…

— Robert Moss

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of…

— Ilya Ponomarev

“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what…

— Tom Robbins

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

— Yoshihiko Noda

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

— Louis de Bernieres

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

— John Irving

I did music for GCSE but I also reaped the benefits of extra-curricular things which were provided in my local community for…

— Ellie Rowsell

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

— Susan Sontag

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.

— Henri Nouwen

“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,”

— Amit Kalantri

I love working out in groups - I love the community of it and the energy, and I love great instructors who…

— Vanessa Williams

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

— Tila Tequila

“Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.”

— Kenneth A. Bruffee

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

— John Stuart Mill

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

— Domenico Gnoli

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who…

— Anonymous

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

— Alexis de Tocqueville