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Quotes About Community

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.
~ Tillie Olsen
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
~ Anne Sexton
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
~ Hamza Yusuf
What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.
~ Snoop Dogg
I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
~ Luis J. Rodriguez
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
~ Elise M. Boulding
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
~ Alice Walker
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.
~ Bill W.
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
~ Isabel Allende
If we can find peace within ourselves, within our families and communities, and heal Mother Earth in small ways, we can create a measurable shift in our world.
~ Mallika Chopra
If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.
~ Brigham Young
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
~ Cesar Chavez
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
~ Harry S. Truman
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
~ Catherine Doherty
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
~ George H. W. Bush
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
~ Sivananda Saraswati
I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace
~ Pope Francis
Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!
~ Sathya Sai Baba
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
~ Claudio Hummes
Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.
~ Cathy Hughes