Community Quotes - Page 6

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

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

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.

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.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.