Community Quote by Eric Drooker Download Open image “Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."” — Eric Drooker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
Most Americans, I don't think, could fathom the society that I grew up in. It is a completely different philosophy from America's. You are… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank. — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America. — Anastasia Soare Copy Share Image
I know, for me, I want to live in a community where people's basic needs are met. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says,… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Street art is about as religious as I get - that's my faith, that even if people screen it out and didn't think they… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image