Community Quotes

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. (Sarah Palin)
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. View quote
Dorothy Day
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I'm a reflection of the community. View quote
Tupac Shakur
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
Washington Irving
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. (Marian Wright Edelman)
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. View quote
Marianne Williamson
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. View quote
Huey P. Newton
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. View quote
H. G. Wells
Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. View quote
James J. Corbett
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. (George W. Bush)
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. View quote
Martti Ahtisaari
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. View quote
Oscar Wilde