Community Quotes · Page 127

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people…

— Christopher Wylie

Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

— Somaly Mam

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

— Jeanne Shaheen

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't…

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

— Michael Chang

It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

— Malcolm McDowell

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

— Tom Vilsack

“Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered…

— Brian J. D'Souza

Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an…

— Amitabh Bachchan

What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few…

— Edward Snowden

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of…

— Abigail Disney

“I wondered whether we’ve become a society that needs to be connected by our branded ‘badges of honor’. Is this what we…

— Dan King

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do…

— Anderson Cooper

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars…

— Allen Ginsberg

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time…

— Moby

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others…

— Patrisse Cullors

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which…

— John Dewey

In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk,…

— Hilton Als

We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government…

— Brad Duguid

Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.…

— Mardy Fish

I don't think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to…

— Thalia Zedek

We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT…

— Hillary Clinton

“A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be…

— Mark Twain

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

— Eddie Redmayne

The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.

— Reza Aslan

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part…

— Oliver Sacks

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

— John Henry Fischer

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the…

— Helen Clark

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

— Neil Postman

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of…

— Robin Hobb

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am very passionate, and I grew up in an incredibly beautiful urban community - the city of Detroit - born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

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

— Billy Graham

The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business.

— Irene Rosenfeld

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

— Wendell Berry

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of…

— Rudger Clawson

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

— Leonardo Boff

You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

— Al Gore