Community famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.
-- A. G. Gaston -
We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
-- Adam Braun -
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.
-- Adam Fletcher -
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
-- Adam Rapp -
Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
-- Adam Rickitt -
And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
-- Adam Schiff -
The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.
-- Adi Shamir -
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.
-- Adolf Hitler -
When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
-- Adolf Hitler -
I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle:benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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.
-- Adolf Hitler -
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
-- Adrian Grenier -
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
-- Aeschines -
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
-- Aeschylus -
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.
-- Aga Khan IV -
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.
-- Aga Khan IV -
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.
-- Agnes Repplier -
For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
-- Aimee Mullins -
We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.
-- Akira Mori -
My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.
-- Al Gore -
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
-- Al Gore -
Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.
-- Alain Juppe -
You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
-- Alan Autry -
Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
-- Alan Autry -
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
-- Alan Autry -
Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.
-- Alan Cohen -
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
-- Alan Cohen -
In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Being the church that Jesus intended means that we must participate in God’s eternal purposes for his world. Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church—reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
-- Alan Hirsch -
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.
-- Alan Keyes -
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
-- Alan Mollohan -
The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.
-- Alan Redpath -
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
-- Albert Camus -
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
-- Albert Einstein -
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.
-- Albert Einstein -
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
-- Albert Einstein -
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
-- Albert Einstein -
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
-- Albert Einstein -
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
-- Aldo Leopold -
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews.
-- Alec Reid -
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
-- Alex Grey -
With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
-- Alex Shakar -
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
-- Alex Steffen -
I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture nowadays, that will change everything. and it's only just beginning.
-- Alex Winter -
Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The deliberative sense of the community should govern.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
-- Alexander Kluge -
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.
-- Alexander Lowen -
We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.
-- Alexandra Byrne -
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
-- Alexi Giannoulias -
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
-- Alfie Kohn -
One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
-- Alice Waters -
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.
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
-- Allan Jacobs -
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
-- Allan Savory -
People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.
-- Aloe Blacc -
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.
-- Alveda King -
The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
-- Amanda Beard -
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
-- Amanda Palmer -
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.
-- Amartya Sen -
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
-- Amber Heard -
Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you're doing.
-- Amber Naslund -
Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
-- Amory Lovins -
It's kind of a camaraderie in the comedy community, people are kind of proud of how badly they go down sometimes, and it's quite nice to join in with that.
-- Amy Hoggart -
Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.
-- Amy Pascal -
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
-- Amy Waldman -
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
-- Anchee Min -
But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.
-- Andie MacDowell -
There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.
-- Andrea Jung -
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.
-- Andrew Goodman -
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
-- Andrew Pyper -
I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
-- Andrew Rannells -
With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.
-- Andrew Shue -
My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
-- Andy Garcia -
If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.
-- Andy Mineo
