Communal Quotes
125 Communal quotes by 112 unique authors
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I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they…
— Al McGuire
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I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns.…
— Thomas Paine
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision…
— Nick Cave
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Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock…
— Dan Graham
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Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other,…
— Arundhati Roy
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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts…
— Learned Hand
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We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is…
— Marcel Proust
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
— Roland Barthes
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I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more…
— Michael Weatherly
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A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis…
— Calvin Seerveld
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We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves…
— Evaristo Nugkuag
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation…
— Abe Fortas
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Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.
— Hayley Atwell
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Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.
— Mark Canton
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I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and…
— Ariel Dorfman
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Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human…
— Pope Francis
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A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can…
— Keegan-Michael Key
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We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it…
— Julia Child
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The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by…
— Eric Hoffer
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
— Eric Hoffer
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Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows.…
— B R Ambedkar
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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his…
— Max Planck
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Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they…
— Henry Adams
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Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
— Gloria Steinem
Who Wrote These Communal Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 125 Communal Quotes, led by these top contributors: