Community Quotes

• I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Giving

• I love my neighborhood: There are Russian families, the artistic community, the gay community, and industry professionals - all ethnicities and ages are represented. That's the kind of neighborhood that I grew up in.

  

  Reiko Aylesworth
  • Neighborhood
  • Russian
  • Represented

• It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Business
  • Community
  • Sovereign State

• A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Community

• Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

  John Monash
  • Community
  • Benefits
  • Whole

• I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Style
  • Interest
  • Approach

• I never really thought of community service as a movement, but it is.

  

  Adam Gardner Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Community
  • Service
  • Movement

• We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

  

  Van Jones
  • Garden
  • Plant
  • Fuel

• I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Information
  • Formal
  • Chairman

• In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Age
  • Mean
  • Used

• You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Community
  • Needs
  • Add

• Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

  

  Alexandra Cousteau
  • Water
  • Environment
  • Safety

• We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Community
  • Rules
  • Setup

• My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Community
  • Government
  • Pretext

• To me, a lemonade stand is a metaphor for a gathering place. It’s like an anchor of community where, I hope, people can just come and be filled by this music. I want them to feel like they can just show up and be who they are, and be reminded of the fact that they are not alone, and reminded of the dreams they had as a kid at a lemonade stand.

  

  Max Ehrich
  • Music
  • Dreams
  • Lemonade

• If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Society
  • Tough
  • Deserve

• One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Community
  • Legacy

• The city is being destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

  

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • Trying
  • Tears
  • Property

• I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Community
  • Holds

• The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

  

  Megan Hilty
  • Great
  • Community

• If you're going to order take out, please support your local small businesses. It's an easy way to show up for your community.

  

  Cristina Garcia
  • Support
  • Order
  • Businesses

• So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?

  

  Ray Dalio
  • People
  • Human
  • Financial

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