Gated Communities Quotes

• There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.

  Mira Grant

  Blood, People, Community

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• We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Wall, Capacity To Love, Cities

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

  Jared Diamond

  People, Water, Community

  "Why societies collapse". www.abc.net.au. July 17, 2003.

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Wall, Home, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are challenges as far as underfunding in various parts of the city. But spirit and sense of community is so much stronger in the places we've been. In Hollywood and Beverly Hills for example, people stay to themselves and live away from others in their gated communities. Despite being a native West Angelino, I had never really felt a strong sense of community until "South Of Wilshire". I now feel it because of the show.

  Harvey Levin

  Strong, Cities, People

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

  Stephen Colbert

  School, Kids, Community

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• Abortion is green! I think its irrefutable, but people don't want to hear that. For most people, having children is an instinctual, natural desire and the last thing they want to do is believe that it has any detrimental side, or if they do believe it, they think it's different for them because they live in a gated community or whatever the reason.

  Doug Stanhope

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, People, Community

  "Kate Best at 30". Cosmopolitain Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 08, 2009.

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• The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Community, Leader, Arriving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

  Stuart Appleby

  America, Australia, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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