Quotes About Community

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

It's true: I can't think of even a single way in which society suffers because of a 15-year-old trick-or-treater.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

My family knows everything about me. There are no secrets, which can be suffocating, but I also find comfort in it. You can always reach out an arm, and an aunty will be close by to tell you that your skirt is too short.

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.

I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.

It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.

We think one of the priorities in Mississippi is not to do what some would suggest, which is to defund the police. Rather, we want to have an initiative to actually fund the police.

I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.

In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

My government is continuously improving the GST regime keeping in view the suggestions being received from the business community.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.