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Community Quotes
"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."
146
"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."
136
"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."
66
"I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs."
63
"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."
63
"A house divided cannot stand."
61
"A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other."
59
"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."
57
"Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?"
56
"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."
54
"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."
54
"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime."
52
"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
51
"I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community."
50
"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."
49
"For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience."
48
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
47
"There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system."
47
"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
46
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
46
"I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned."
45
"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."
45
"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."
44
"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."
44
"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."
44
"The sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits - love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and leprosy, religion a few stones in the centre of the village where the dead chiefs lay, a grove of trees where the rice birds, like yellow and green canaries, built their nests, a man in a mask with raffia skirts dancing at burials. This never varied, only their kindness to strangers, the extent of their poverty and the immediacy of their terrors. Their laughter and their happiness seemed the most courageous things in nature."
44
"Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community."
44
"Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own."
44
"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."
42
"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."
41
"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."
40
"I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field."
40
"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."
40
"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community."
40
"One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community."
39
"I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live."
39
"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."
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