Community Quotes

• Do something to make your community a better place to live.

  

  Jessy White
  • Community
  • Better
  • Place

• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Important
  • Art
  • Giving

• Reimagine a way communities can be rebuilt.

  

  Candy Chang
  • Community

• We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

  

  Thomas R. Cech
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Teacher

• It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Book
  • Community
  • Changes

• The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Enemy
  • Intelligence

• Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Giving
  • Joy
  • Sometimes

• It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • World
  • Peace
  • Loss

• Those of us that get to a certain level, we have to start giving back to our communities, giving information it's something that you have to do. It's either realize that you're a great individual by nature and move towards that or just accept the white man telling you: 'you're never going to prosper, this world isn't meant for you to prosper, we have privilege, you don't, that's it.'

  

  Charlamagne Tha God
  • World
  • Individual
  • Realizing

• Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Circumstances

• I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Community

• We need to learn, practice, study, know, and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Community
  • Practice
  • Angels

• I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Celebrity
  • Role Model
  • Volunteering

• Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Women
  • Community
  • Support

• We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

  

  Cleveland Sellers
  • Community
  • Talk
  • Sit

• While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.

  

  Richard Masur
  • People
  • Issues
  • Deafness

• There's a lot of sanctions left that we can start to do, whether it's with oil, whether it's with energy, whether it's with their maritime ships, exports, we can do a lot of different things that we haven't done yet. What we have to do is send a strong, unified message to North Korea that this nuclear tests unacceptable. And I think the international community do that.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Energy

• I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Community
  • Ability
  • Circumstances

• It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Community

• You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.

  

  David D. Cole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fighting

• Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

  

  Paul Parker
  • Feeling
  • Community
  • Reward

• One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Technology
  • Philosophy
  • Atmosphere

• I know Korea is a lot more progressive than what it used to be, but there are still a lot of misconceptions about the LGBT community here.

  

  MRSHLL
  • Community
  • Progressive
  • Misconceptions

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