Community Quotes

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.- Paul Ryan

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.- Robert Peel

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.- George Bernard Shaw

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

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.- Haile Selassie

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.- Allan Bloom

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.- Haniel Clark Long

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.- Dorothy Height

Being in a pageant is not just about beauty. It's more about service to the community and being a role model and making a difference. It's being proud of your city. It's all what you put into it...- Chantel Giamanco

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.- Dikembe Mutombo

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.- Rollo May

Community cannot long feed on itself, it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond: their unknown and undiscovered sisters and brothers.- Howard Thurman

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.- Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete'.- Elayne Boosler

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.- Nita Ambani

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.- Thomas Jefferson

Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.- George Washington

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

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.- Saul Alinsky

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.- Martin H. Fischer

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.- Nancy Greene

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

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

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

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.- Herman Melville

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.- Lady Bird Johnson

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.- Mitchell Baker

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.- Michael N. Castle

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.- A. Philip Randolph

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

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.- Thorstein Veblen