Community Quotes · Page 114

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

— Tobias Wolff

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

— Anonymous

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

— Sean Harris

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

— Yoko Ono

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.

— Indira Gandhi

Sometimes we do not value our belongings. Unless they stop belonging to us.

— Anonymous

In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.

— Francois Hollande

In America the Jewish community is very strong. It controls much of the economy. Certainly the mass media.

— Mikis Theodorakis

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live…

— Henri Nouwen

The overwhelming message I was getting is that people were sick of politicians fighting amongst themselves and sick of the perception that…

— Gladys Berejiklian

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold…

— Thomas Perez

The People's Response Act will create grant funding for the grassroots and community organizations that are doing the work to address housing,…

— Cori Bush

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office,…

— Anonymous

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought…

— Thomas Pogge

The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received…

— Ismail Haniyeh

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the…

— Donna Shalala

There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not…

— Joshua Clover

We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they…

— Umair Haque

I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available…

— Adrienne Bailon

I think our shepherds, our pastors, can take for instance, Chapter Four [of Amoris Laetitia], 'Vive l'amore' ('How to live love'). It's…

— Christoph Schonborn

In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you…

— Pope Paul VI

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love.…

— Michael Ende

The inaction of the international community towards Guatemala is injustifiable. The community should play an active role with concrete measures and sanctions…

— Rigoberta Menchu

What I'm super-proud of is Chrishell speaking as an ally for the non-binary community, and how she speaks on being queer and…

— G Flip

We should not live one more day ignoring the sh** that suffocates and strangles US keeping US imprisoned in our own communities.

— T.I

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

— Theodor Adorno

“It must be good to have somewhere that you belong. Somewhere that’s home.”

— Neil Gaiman

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

— Millard Fuller

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

— John Monash

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

— Billy Graham

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

— Kenneth Rexroth

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

— Jaime Harrison

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and…

— Starhawk

There's a natural marriage between the pro-Israel Jewish community and the African American community.

— Ritchie Torres

“you are not a product of society, you are a product of your choices, and decisions…you set the direction of your life,…

— Rick Ferreira

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

— Bill Duke

“I do not believe that any form of lasting community can exist where people do not share the same sense of what…

— Coetzee

I think it's always important that you give back, but especially to the community that had an impact on you, you grew…

— Brandin Cooks