Community Quotes

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

~ Helene D. Gayle

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

~ Jeff Bridges

Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.

~ Angela Merkel

Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

~ Samantha Power

Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.

~ Matthew Desmond

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

~ Rick Renzi

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

~ Ariel Dorfman

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

~ Bernard Werber

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.

~ Hillary Clinton

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

~ Henri Nouwen

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

~ Halle Berry

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

~ Toni Morrison

When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

~ Frances Beinecke

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

~ Robert Kennedy

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

~ Albert Bandura

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

~ Anas Aremeyaw Anas

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

~ Joe Biden

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

~ Robert Kennedy

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

~ Valerie Solanas

One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

~ Washington Irving

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

~ Orson Scott Card

You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.

~ Kathleen Turner

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

~ Dorothy Day

I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.

~ Beto O'rourke

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

~ Ted Cruz

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

~ Claire Mccaskill

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

~ Joe Jamail

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

~ Felix Adler

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

~ Li Peng

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

~ David Zabel

A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.

~ Susanna Kearsley

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

~ Robert M. Gates

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

~ Richard Stallman

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

~ Harry Browne

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

~ Richard M. Nixon

When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

~ Jerry Doyle

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

~ Tony Cardenas

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

~ Heather Brooke