Community Quotes · Page 91

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Susan Sontag

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

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

— Terry Tempest Williams

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat,…

— Elayne Boosler

For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape,…

— Justin Lin

I view the United States, today, much like East Berlin. And I'm off the grid. I've tried for 20 years to warn…

— Jesse Ventura

The vision for WeWork has always been about community. It's been about working together to accomplish things greater than what we can…

— Miguel McKelvey

My first job was at the Inala Plaza selling jewelry; I've seen all sorts of life; I've studied overseas; I've worked hard…

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes…

— Anonymous

No matter what barbershop you go to, there's always that guy who's just hanging around and doesn't do much, but knows everything…

— Deon Cole

Travel can transform communities and lives around the world... Imagine if we got to a place where people can go on holidays…

— Bruce Poon Tip

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and…

— William Paterson

“Community and cooperation . . . Communion is based on some common inner expression of love; it is the recognition of being…

— Jean Vanier

“Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes…

— Erich Fromm

The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of…

— Clive Rowe

We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced…

— Elie Wiesel

Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology,…

— Cameron Sinclair

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

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

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

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

All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.

— Christine Gregoire