Community Quotes
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.
Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.
A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community
In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.
I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.