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Community Quotes and Sayings

I think the world should be one community.
Neil Tennant

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams

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

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

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
St. Thomas Aquinas

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

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
Gary Cooper

…A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.�
Pope John Paul II

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
Mignon McLaughlin

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.
Emily Greene Balch

If your support the community, they will support you.
Jerry Greenfield

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
Sargent Shriver

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Ruth Benedict

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
Anthony J. D’Angelo

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
Edward S. Herman

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

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

While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many.
Lady Bird Johnson

I would have loved it – without the French.
D.H. Lawrence

Hear me, four quarters of the world – a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.
Black Elk

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold

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

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don’t want us in your community, that’s your choice, but don’t say it’s because of wages.
Lee Scott

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
Richard Whately

It takes a long time to educate a community and it can’t be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin’s lamp. Character is what matters on a paper.
Harry J. Grant

The Italians have voices like peacocks – German gives me a cold in the head – and Russian is nothing but sneezing.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Barbara Jordan

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
William Thomas Stead

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