Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Seeger

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

Quentin Tarantino

Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

Philip Yancey

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Pope Benedict XVI

I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.

Naveen Jain

Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

Moshe Katsav

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

Peter Garrett

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

Eric Liu

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

Eric Liu

The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it is possible by committing to show up for each others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

Emmanuel Jal

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

John Irving

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

John Monash

Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community

John Dewey

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

John Dewey

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

John Dewey

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

John Dewey

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.

John Dewey

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Lee Strobel

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Lauren Groff

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

Judy Blume

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

Leonard Cohen

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lance Reddick

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Gary Cooper

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

Mahatma Gandhi

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

John Maynard Keynes

Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

John Major

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

Jim Ramstad

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.