Quotes on Community

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

Author: Jose Aznar

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.

Author: Thomas Babington

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

Author: Michael Badnarik

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Author: Ulrich Beck

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

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

Author: Henry Beecher

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

Author: Harry Belafonte

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

Author: Jeremy Bentham

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Author: William Blackstone

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

Author: John Boehner

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

Author: Emma Bonino

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms," all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Author: Anthony Braxton

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.

Author: Michael Burgess

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.

Author: Edmund Burke

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.

Author: Solomon Burke

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

Author: Peter Carey

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

Author: Robert Casey

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Author: Cesar Chavez

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Author: Hugo Chavez

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Author: Helen Clark

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.

Author: Joel Coen

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Author: James Corbett

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

Author: Hansie Cronje

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Author: Roger Daltrey

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Author: Dorothy Day

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

Author: Jacques Delors

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how many others you lift with you.

Author: Michelle Obama

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Author: Anita Diament

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

Author: Anita Diament

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Author: Mary Douglas

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

Author: Rita Dove

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

Author: Jan Egeland

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.

Author: Mike Farrell

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

Author: Russ Feingold

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

Author: Joschka Fischer

It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.

Author: Tom Fitton

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

Author: Vincent Frank

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

Author: Alberto Fujimori

I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community.

Author: Teri Garr

There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.

Author: Teri Garr

Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.

Author: Leeza Gibbons

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

Author: Danny Glover

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Author: Andrew Goodman

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

Author: Genevieve Gorder

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

If your support the community, they will support you.

Author: Jerry Greenfield

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Author: Bill Griffith

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

Author: Jasmine Guy

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

Author: Peter Hain

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

Author: Lee Haney

Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

Author: Mary Hart

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.

Author: Arthur Henderson

Success is not defined by the trophies we display, but by the impact we make on those around us.

Author: Michelle Obama

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.

Author: Robert Huber

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

Author: Henrik Ibsen

I've never worked with the Java community.

Author: Miguel Icaza

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Author: Jeremy Jackson

Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.

Author: Maynard Jackson

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

Author: Kevin James

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

Author: Joseph Jarman

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

Author: William Jenkins

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

Author: J. Johnson

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.

Author: Kevin Johnson

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

Author: Lady Johnson

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

Author: Barbara Jordan

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

Author: Bill Joy

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

Author: Moshe Katsav

The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.

Author: Moshe Katsav

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

Author: Moshe Katsav

The case of Iran, a nuclear program that the Iranians admit was 18 years on, that we underestimated. And, in fact, we didn't discover it. It was discovered by a group of Iranian dissidents outside the country who pointed the international community at the location.

Author: David Kay

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

Author: Sally Kellerman

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

Author: Mathieu Kerekou

Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

Author: Ron Kind

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

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.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

One who breaks an unjust 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 law.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Author: Joseph Lancaster

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.

Author: Christian Lange

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

Author: Mario Lemieux

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

Author: Joe Lieberman

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Author: Judith Light

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

Author: Anna Lindh

The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.

Author: Mark Lloyd

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.

Author: Bjorn Lomborg

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

Author: Lavrenti Lopes

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.

Author: Roger Mahony

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Author: Richard Masur

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.

Author: Catherine McAuley

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

Author: Christa McAuliffe

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

Author: Barry McCaffrey

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

Author: Ed McMahon

There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.

Author: Robert Menendez

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Author: John Mill

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Author: Wentworth Miller

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Author: Alan Mollohan

Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.

Author: Charles Moore

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

Author: Marc Morial

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

Author: Alex Morrison

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Author: David Morse

When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community.

Author: Tim Murphy

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

Author: Grace Napolitano

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

Author: Randy Neugebauer

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

Author: Gavin Newsom

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

Author: Barack Obama

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

Author: Sarah Palin

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

Author: Paul Parker

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Author: Boris Pasternak

If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.

Author: Nancy Pelosi

Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

Author: Li Peng

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Author: Li Peng

We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with each other.

Author: Thomas Merton

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

Author: Plato

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

Author: John Poindexter

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

Author: Sarah Polley

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

Author: Jon Porter

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

Author: Vladimir Putin

I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

Author: Laisenia Qarase

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.

Author: A. Randolph

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

Author: Tim Reid

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

Author: Condoleezza Rice

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Author: Christopher Ricks

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

Author: Ann Robinson

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

Author: John Robinson

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

Author: Jay Rockefeller

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

Author: Jai Rodriguez

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

Author: George Saunders

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Author: Bob Schieffer

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Author: Jon Secada

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

Author: David Selby

I'm a reflection of the community.

Author: Tupac Shakur

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Author: Silvan Shalom

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

Author: Natan Sharansky

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

Author: Brooke Shields

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

Author: Sargent Shriver

Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.

Author: Christian Siriano

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

Author: Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Author: Ed Smith

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

Author: Catherine Spence

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

Author: Clarence Stein

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Author: Oliver Tambo

I think the world should be one community.

Author: Neil Tennant