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Quotes About Communities

We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.
~ Arthur Blank
I'm deeply honored to lead Deloitte. I look forward to collaborating with all our people to continue to lead our profession in quality and innovation. Together, we make an impact that matters every day for our clients, the capital markets, communities, and society.
~ Cathy Engelbert
Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.
~ Adam Rickitt
In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.
~ Ayanna Pressley
There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.
~ Peter Garrett
I'm not naive. All politics is about identity, right? Neighborhood politics, cultural politics, issue politics. It's not as though I don't get that. It's just - it has to be, I think, tempered in a way that is for our overall advancement and not to our detriment or obliteration. When I say 'our,' I don't mean just communities of color.
~ Ayanna Pressley
If it can be said that serial killers, through the control they exert and the terror they spread, make victims of the entire communities—families and loved ones, the police who track them, and the general public who must live in fear—then in his own way, Dave was a victim of the Green River killer, just as I became one of Ted Bundy's victims.
~ Robert D. Keppel
There is nothing wrong with the United States--or the world at large--that cannot be stabilized and reconstructed by restoring the intelligence and integrity of all our organizations across the eight communities (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-governmental/non-profit).
~ Robert David Steele
Kai Erikson has suggested that the idea that disasters bring communities together is very often far from true: 'for the most part . . . trauma damages the texture of community' for it often 'forces open whatever fault lines once ran silently through the structure of the larger community'.
~ Robert Kenny
Weird and fantastic as it seems, the Fourierist idea took some hold, even in that fortress of practicality and common sense, the United States. At one time there were over forty phalansteries in this country, and if one groups together the Owenite communities and the religious movements of various sorts, there were at least one hundred and seventy-eight actual Utopian groups with from fifteen to nine hundred members each.
~ Robert L. Heilbroner
society is not identical with the state. Society is composed of people, freely associating and forming communities of interest that socialists have no right to control and no authority to outlaw. To
~ Roger Scruton
on Candlemass Day, February 2nd, on Rood Mass Day, May 1st, on Lammas Day, August 1st, and on the eve of All Hallows, October 31st.
~ Aldous Huxley
Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
~ Amory Lovins
This is just as true in the United States as it has been in Egypt, Tunisia, and dozens of other locales around the world, and despite mainstream media's heavy focus over the past few years on the alleged censorship of right-wing populists, it is and has always been marginalized communities most affected by these new forms of censorship.
~ Jillian York
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
~ Jim Clyburn
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
~ Jim Sensenbrenner
The sociology of many white communities shapes the theology of their churches, making them "conformed to the world" and disobedient to the gospel.
~ Jim Wallis
the Orthodox Church has quietly used its authority to prevent "nontraditional" communities
~ Anne Garrels
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
~ Benjamin Todd Jealous
For parents who work, afterschool programs can be a crucial support system, but too many communities have limited options.
~ Stacey Abrams
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.
~ Mehdi Hasan
What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.
~ Jon Porter
Ensuring the safety and security of our monuments and infrastructure is critical to protecting our communities and the American people.
~ Dan Donovan