Community Quotes · Page 16

Frattamaggiore, the neighborhood where I grew up, was very difficult.

— Lorenzo Insigne

“A healthy society begins with healthy individuals.”

— Sabina Nore

Every citizen is responsible for the society in which we are living.

— Rohini Hattangadi

I think you could say L.A. has a bit of a cookie-cutter gay community.

— Bobby Berk

I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.

— Danny K. Davis

Change in society starts from within a family.

— Kirron Kher

Segregated Witness was forced onto the miners by the community.

— Tone Vays

Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.

— Jim Gaffigan

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force.

— John Fetterman

“We are on the verge of losing our capacity as a society for deep, sustained focus. In short, we are slipping toward…

— Anonymous

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

— Max Carver

Violence of action, as we call it in the Spec Ops community, will often change the odds in your favor.

— Brandon Webb

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

— John Scarlett

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

— Robert A. M. Stern

We really want to build a community around Good Weird and change the conversation around who can and can't explore the beauty…

— Evan Mock

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm…

— Angelica Ross

Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point,…

— Frederick Lenz

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God…

— Allan Boesak

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get…

— David Morse

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in…

— Wole Soyinka

I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like…

— Cyndi Lauper

I grew up in a great neighborhood, and I remember that you just walked out the front door, and you had a…

— Lori Loughlin

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make…

— Carl Safina

As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the…

— Noam Chomsky

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance,…

— James Thurber

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would…

— John Green

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism…

— Hilaire Belloc

In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these…

— Hari Kunzru

What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,…

— John D. Rockefeller

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as…

— Aldo Leopold

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

— Nelson Mandela

I still love gaming and the gaming community.

— Zoe Quinn

“I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.”

— Jordan Flaherty

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves.

— Carly Aquilino

I grew up in a small Latino community that was very masculine-driven.

— Adore Delano

“I guess the first thing we do is find a hardware store.”

— Laurie Loveman

I've been in some fights in my neighborhood before.

— George Hill

“We can take this “we belong together” thing slow”

— Cynthia Hand