Community Quotes - page 2

Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community no more. View quote
Malcolm X
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. View quote
William Wordsworth
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. View quote
George Mason
Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. View quote
Alan Bennett
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
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. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. (Aldo Leopold)
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston. View quote
Anne Rivers Siddons
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. View quote
Stephane Hessel
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. View quote
Arthur Henderson
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy. View quote
Junot Diaz
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. View quote
Joshua Ferris
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. View quote
Elihu Root
I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there. (Hjalmar Branting)
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. View quote
Christopher Lasch
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. View quote
Lisa Bonet
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. View quote
Barbara Jordan