Community Quotes

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To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities. -- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

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. -- George Mason

“We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet’s survival. Compassion must be translated into action.” -- Natasha Mayers

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other. -- Bill McKibben

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

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

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty... -- Evo Morales

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
-- Martha Nussbaum

"If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community." -- Barack Obama

"Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be demilitarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people, and mostly because it's now a matter of life and death, reassert an ecological balance with the environment, which means the people in the oil companies and the car companies and the space industry will have to be brought into account, so there will be a new definition of government which has to be closer to the people and less close to special interests which are far more harmful that any revolutionaries. -- Phil Ochs

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor

We are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political, and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence. -- Linus Pauling

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. -- M. Scott Peck "It is our task—our essential, central, crucial task—to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures." -- M. Scott Peck

Living together is an art.
-- William Pickens

"We try to be a welcoming community for people who are left out in our society. We help people heal and become who God is calling them to be." -- Sister Lucy Poulin

* "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

"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in." -- Anita Roddick

* The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations. -- Aruna Roy

In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness. -- Carl Sagan

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
-- Mitsugi Saotome

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand. -- Susan Sarandon

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
-- Budd Schulberg,

* "I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." -- George Bernard Shaw "Independence"... middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. -- George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other. -- Russell Simmons

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

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free. -- Starhawk

* “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 “In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.” -- Rudolf Steiner

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

 

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