Community Quotes - Page 4

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Even some of our friends, not only here, but in the international community, in Africa as well, were beginning to show weakness and their weakness, did not lend support to us and we found ourselves weak negotiators at various stages.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Community [is] a group of individuals who have learned how to communicate honestly with each other, whose relationships go deeper than their masks of composure, and who have developed some significant commitment to "rejoice together, mourn together," and to "delight in each other, make others' conditions our own.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.