Quotes About Community

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.

In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.

We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

What do gardeners do when they retire?

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else.

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.