Community Quotes · Page 74

To reimagine our country, we must first rebuild our infrastructure with community priorities at the center.

— Jamaal Bowman

“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.”

— T.F. Hodge

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

— Lois Lowry

The more we stand up and be counted, the harder it will be to discount our community. We need to put a…

— Amanda Bearse

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

— Judy Sheindlin

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

— Dolores Huerta

We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism.

— William H. McRaven

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

— Michael J. Fox

Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper…

— Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community…

— Mel Carnahan

Too often, when Muslim women speak out, some in our 'community' accuse us of 'making our men look bad' and of giving…

— Mona Eltahawy

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come…

— Tarana Burke

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari…

— Michael Schumacher

I really would want Tampa, the city of Tampa, to help build me and to help me become a better young man…

— Jameis Winston

If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It…

— John Templeton

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each…

— Carl Rogers

“The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals…

— Aldous Huxley

For a while the creative writing community sort of sprung out of places like Iowa and Syracuse. The graduates sort of went…

— Ted Kooser

“In the final analysis, agape means a recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than…

— Henry Hazlitt

I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not…

— Richard Louv

“Also, there is a dedicated community of people in the world who will always be able to connect with each other across…

— Nina George

“But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said…

— C.S. Lewis

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

— Marilyn Hacker

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other…

— Eve Ensler

“The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

— Jill Biden

I just want to be a good person, to be a good man for my family, and to my community and just…

— Jabari Parker

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

— Chinua Achebe

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.

— Otto Kerner Jr

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

— Ira Sachs

“For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.”

— Leonard Sweet

The queer community deserves a happy ending just as much as anybody else.

— Camille Perri

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

— Carl Hart

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

— Elliott Abrams

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

— David Bayles