Community Quotes · Page 167

Charity begins at the bank..if you happen to be the president of a charity

— John Lewington

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

— Noam Chomsky

[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion.

— Stewart Oneglia

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

— Frances O'Grady

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

— Fred Ritchin

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The rise in discrimination and hateful targeting of the AAPI community has to stop.

— Michelle Steel

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

— Michael Rapaport

I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian…

— Dick Gregory

I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy.…

— Paul Newman

Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor,…

— David Nasaw

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their…

— Henry David Thoreau

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a…

— Aristotle

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any…

— Vin Diesel

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience…

— Colin Powell

Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that…

— Christopher Anderson

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those…

— Janet Frame

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well…

— Mother Teresa

I knew hundreds and hundreds of women like me, who had traveled in and out of prison in a revolving door. They…

— Susan Burton

... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of…

— Plato

I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The…

— J.P. Moreland

“participation, such as insider language or the high cost of Jewish life. 7. An inclusive Jewish community takes Jewish life out to…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

— Annie Lennox

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

— Jessye Norman

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

— Tibor Kalman

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

— Ehud Barak

Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will…

— Clifton Taulbert

Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.

— Bob Beckel

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

— Alan Hirsch

For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be…

— Jim Rash

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the…

— Jean Vanier

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

— Norman Cousins

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

— Michael Chang

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand…

— Bernie Sanders

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on…

— Ann Richards

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many…

— Ari Graynor

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

— Jay Saunders Redding

In tough times, the people of West Virginia have always stepped up to help a community in need.

— Jim Justice