Community Quotes - Page 5

• Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

  Rick Renzi

  Strong, Home, Ownership

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• Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Public Opinion, Dignity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

  Kofi Annan

  Skills, Organization, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

  Emily Greene Balch

  World, Human Nature, Humans

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• A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

  William Baldwin

  Money, Mean, People

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• To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Block, Mean, Government

  Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  M. Scott Peck

  Essentials, Tasks, Social

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems, a global community where the basic needs of all the Earth's people are satisfied, and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized. This is entirely doable.

  Lester R. Brown

  Inspiring, Thinking, Support Systems

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• I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.

  Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

  Rights, Progress, World

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• I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and shes gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

  Laura Innes

  Gay, Age, Littles

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• 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

  Strong, Real, Hip Hop

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• Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

  Walden Bello

  Choices, Promise, World

  Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

  Martin Van Buren

  Reality, Government, Connections

  Martin Van Buren (2018). “State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Patriotism

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. April 3, 2006.

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• The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

  Amartya Sen

  College, Students, Active

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• America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

  Paul Tsongas

  Journey, America, Culture

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• 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 Cech

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

  Wentworth Miller

  Luxury, Support, Identity

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• It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

  Mary Douglas

  Sweet, Doe, Want

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• Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Might, Bedtime

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Hymns, Together

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• The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

  Tina Thompson

  Jobs, Dollars, Benefits

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• Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Beloved Community, Goal

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• 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

  Reflection, Community Living, Mirrors

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