Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel L. Jackson

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that.

Salma Hayek

I have always been an active part of my community.

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.

Josiah Royce

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Kofi Annan

These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.

Kofi Annan

In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Ramana Maharshi

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

Scott McCloud

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

L. Ron Hubbard

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

Theresa May

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

Terry Tempest Williams

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

Terry Tempest Williams

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

Terry Goodkind

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Terence McKenna

Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

Terence McKenna

You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.

Terence McKenna

The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

Ted Leonsis

The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

Shinzo Abe

Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed ... The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism.

Lesley Garrett

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

Lawrence Eagleburger

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

Marco Rubio

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Marcus Aurelius

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

Marcus Aurelius

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Sandra Cisneros

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

Samuel Johnson

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Saeb Erekat

Now, more than ever, the international community must act.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

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.