Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Dove

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.

Thomas Browne

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

Ratan Tata

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Robert Higgs

In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Individuals take part less often in voluntary community activities and more often in belligerent political contests. Genuine communities cannot breathe in the poisonous atmosphere of redistributional politics.

Tony Benn

Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community

Tony Blair

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community

Tony Blair

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

Tony Blair

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

Simon Mainwaring

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

Simon Mainwaring

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

Simon Mainwaring

In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.

Timothy Radcliffe

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Robert A. M. Stern

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Robert A. Heinlein

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Ruth Benedict

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

Roger Daltrey

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.

Rush Limbaugh

The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich.

Tony Judt

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

Tony Hsieh

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

Steven Biko

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

Sting

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

Stephen Gardiner

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Tom Vilsack

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.

Tom Hayden

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Tim Kaine

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

Sam Harris

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

S. I. Hayakawa

If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

Stephen Colbert

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

Stephen Colbert

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Stefan Zweig

As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of moralityonly by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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.