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Quotes About Community

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.
~ Barack Obama
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.
~ Jewel
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.
~ George Friedman
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
~ Scilla Elworthy
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
~ Tom Lehrer
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.
~ Christopher Heyerdahl
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
~ Stephen Ambrose
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.
~ Ru Freeman
I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.
~ Jamel Shabazz
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.
~ Donald Trump
We ain't goin' study war no more.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.
~ Hassan Blasim
None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
~ Jake Lloyd
Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.
~ Jodie Evans
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.
~ Lauren Groff
Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.
~ Malcolm X
A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.
~ Muhammad Ali
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
~ Susan Sontag
Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.
~ William James
In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.
~ Aysha Taryam
The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
~ Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson