Community Quotes

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.

Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same.

Maximum individuality within maximum community

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.