Quotes About Community

We're super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That's the point of this whole thing. That's what cuts through all the 'stuff'. You get lit up. You don't have to know what it means.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

The human society is the extension of the individual. Therefore, if we really want a radical change, if we want a better world, we need to change individually.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

When I see that people want to listen to me and when I feel that they are supporting the goals that I am committed to, then I am very pleased.