Community Quotes · Page 118

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

— Richard Cabral

I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

— Tammara Webber

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

— Jerry Bridges

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

— Annie Lennox

“usually without giving the matter too much thought, we see ourselves as part of a civic community transcending generations.”

— Tony Judt

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

— Yuri Kochiyama

“Delusion is what your society wants you to believe in, reality is what you see from your heart!”

— Fahad Basheer

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

— Henry David Thoreau

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate;…

— Kathleen Blanco

The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had…

— Marla Gibbs

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has…

— Michael Bierut

Few people outside the Telegram fan community realize that most of the new features in messaging appear on Telegram first, and are…

— Pavel Durov

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small,…

— Abraham Kaplan

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are…

— John McGahern

So pride is a time for us to say we're here, we're visible, we're strong, we're able to organise and we're able…

— Alaska

Labour was formed to be the voice of community organisers, civic leaders and workplace activists, whose fight against poverty and injustice involved…

— Liz Kendall

Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still…

— Elias Canetti

[ Donald Trump] is a man who ran on building a wall. And I know it was about legal immigration, but he…

— Margaret Hoover

I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for…

— Maurice Motamed

Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat…

— Obert C. Tanner

We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal…

— Nathaniel Branden

Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and…

— Richard Engel

Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas…

— Philip Roth

We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed…

— Howard Zahniser

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

— J. C. Watts

When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them

— Michelle Obama

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black…

— David Sanborn

When I moved to New York, the gay community welcomed me with open arms and told me how beautiful I was. I…

— Michelle Visage

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

— Wayne Dyer

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't…

— Jean Vanier

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

— Bela Lugosi

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

— John M. Perkins

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

— Reza Aslan

“The kind of society where trust is widespread is likely to be fairly compact and quite homogenous.”

— Tony Judt

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their…

— Henri Nouwen

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...

— Anna Godbersen

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires…

— Everett Dirksen

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

— Holly Near

At the heart of Mormonism is a high regard for community. That is its strength. I have great respect for that.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone…

— Russell Simmons