Community Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Community
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~ One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ~

Jeremy Bentham

~ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~

Aldo Leopold

~ The sending forth of authorized persons beyond the borders of the New Testament church and her immediate gospel influence to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in gospel-destitute areas, to win converts from other faiths or non-faiths to Jesus Christ, and to establish functioning, multiplying local congregations who will bear the fruit of Christianity in that community and to that country. ~

Dr. George Peters

~ They're shining examples of being active in the community and active for small-forest landowners. They get into the process and make a difference. ~

Bob Faulkner

~ I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~

Kofi Atta Annan

~ Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. ~

Saint Thomas Aquinas

~ The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community. ~

Ben Silliman

~ A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character ~

Otto Bauer

~ There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in. ~

Unknown

~ Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop... ~

Dr. Dorothy I. Height

~ If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. ~

Cicero

~ I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living ~

Rudolf Steiner

~ There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ~

Winston Churchill

~ There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good ~

Samuel Johnson

~ A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community. ~

Martin H. Fischer

~ The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. ~

Aristotle

~ Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. ~

Anthony Burgess

~ Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons. ~

Pope John Paul II

~ Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination. ~

Wyndham Lewis

~ The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind ~

Joseph Conrad

~ Crime and bad lives are the measure of a Stateís failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. ~

H.G. Wells

~ In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music. ~

Nick Cannon

~ Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career. ~

Barack Obama

~ The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place ~

Marian Wright Edelman

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