Quotes About Community

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

The [Barack] Obama administration almost appears as though it is afraid of the intelligence community. They're afraid of death by a thousand cuts - you know, leaks and things like that.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.