Global Community Quotes

• 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, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

  Jimmy Carter

  Community, Borders, Boundaries

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• Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Community, Benefits

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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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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

  Zoe Weil

  Generosity, Choices, Community

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• We as a global community are only as strong as our weakest link.

  Richard E. Besser

  Strong, Community, Links

  Source: content.time.com

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• Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Fighting, Differences

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Community Living

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• In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

  Jim Costa

  Country, Military, Views

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority.

  Irene Fernandez

  Community, Majority, Benefits

  The Right Livelihood Award Acceptance speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2005.

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• The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative today. It is also apparent that it should adapt to the ever-changing world, which we discuss all the time: how it should evolve and at what rate, which components should undergo qualitative changes. Of course, I will have to or rather should use this international platform to explain Russia's vision of today's international relations, as well as the future of this organisation and the global community.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Community, Vision

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

  Liz Cheney

  America, Community, Needs

  "Liz Cheney Slams Obama On Foreign Policy: 'America Needs A Commander In Chief, Not A Global Community Organizer'". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2009.

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• Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Nike, Powerful, Reality

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• Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

  Craig Kielburger

  Educational, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Children, Father, Community

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will find both support and fulfillment in a functional global community.

  Thomas Berry

  Religious, Peace, Support

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

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• As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Epidemics, Ebola, Vaccines

  "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.

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• At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Moving, Taken

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• What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, Community, Example

  "Full text of Bill Clinton's speech (part one)", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• 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

  Blood, People, Community

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• I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic principles of community in our own individual lives and personal spheres of influence.

  M. Scott Peck

  Moving, Community, Dubious

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• As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Poetry Life & Times – An Interview With Author-Poet Aberjhani". Interview with Sara L. Russell, Robin Ouzman Hislop, www.artvilla.com. March 18, 2015.

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• Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

  Ilchi Lee

  Choices, Community, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Mar 25, 2014

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