Community Quotes · Page 95

That which belongs to others pleases us most, while that which belongs to us is most valued by others.

— Vikrant Parsai

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

— Leymah Gbowee

“At a basic level, community unites us to a purpose bigger than our own lives as individuals.”

— Randy Frazee

“maximum performance emerges from the peer pressure of a community working toward a common mission.”

— August Turak

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

— Pete Hoekstra

America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

— Greg Abbott

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

— Jane Smiley

The Office of Community Development & Rural Prosperity marks a crucial step in driving economic progress across our entire state.

— Doug Burgum

Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows…

— Jaime Harrison

Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and…

— William J. Clinton

We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their…

— Martin O'Malley

I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to…

— Lena Dunham

Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress…

— Wilbur Ross

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid,…

— P. W. Botha

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the…

— Hugh Black

It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community…

— Thomas Mulcair

So I've got mates I've known since I was five years old. Their children know my children. There's something really lovely about…

— Ainsley Harriott

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting…

— Kacey Musgraves

The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut…

— Katharine Hayhoe

We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular…

— Pope Francis

Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars…

— Amiri Baraka

“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current…

— David Brooks

To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to…

— Barack Obama

Real politics should work for the long-term and overall interests of the community.

— Carrie Lam

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

— Helen Keller

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not…

— Michael Baumgartner

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial…

— Nelson Mandela

I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

— Ari Melber

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

— Rosie O'Donnell

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that…

— Jim Gaffigan

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

— William P. Leahy

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

— Joe Kaeser

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

— Henry Giroux

I will continue to fight for our people and businesses that make our community and our nation thrive, they deserve that.

— Jeff Van Drew

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Indian country is small, word gets around about how people conduct themselves when they come into your community.

— Lily Gladstone