Community Quotes · Page 146

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

— John F. Kennedy

I'd like people to be more aware of the benefits of communities. Lots of problems could be solved that way.

— Paddy McGuinness

“Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community? It is the sum total of our choices.”

— Fredrik Backman

I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

— Noam Chomsky

The entire Internet has gone from being a place of creative community to a giant billboard.

— Ethel Cain

We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

— James R. Clapper

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

— Max De Pree

People in the beauty community don't like copycats, so I think it's important to stay true to who you are and people…

— Anastasia Soare

When radical extremist antisemites sow seeds of division within our nation, it is imperative we stand together, as Alabamians and Americans, in…

— Katie Britt

We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud…

— William Barr

Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up…

— James Earl Jones

Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which…

— Robert O. Paxton

You've got to have sustained success, you've got to stand for certain things in our community and I think that's what people…

— Joel Glazer

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You…

— Anonymous

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology,…

— Howard Rheingold

Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about…

— Parker J. Palmer

The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity…

— Wendell Berry

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if…

— Jessica Valenti

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is…

— Vaclav Havel

We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite…

— Benjamin Zablocki

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in…

— Mark Twain

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

— Pope Francis

The success of Boston's economy is intertwined with the health and well-being of every neighborhood.

— Michelle Wu

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

— Milton Glaser

“Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.”

— Ken Kesey

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

— Lewis Thomas

Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.

— Antony Blinken

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

— James Clapper

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the…

— Donald Trump

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.

— John Dewey

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

— Shane Claiborne

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

— Nancy Greene

There's a lot that the city can do, and it depends on having a partnership with community members who are living the…

— Michelle Wu

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

— Fred Rogers

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

— Jeremy Lin