Quotes About Community

I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a month.

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than 'exchange value.' It does not exist to generate profits.

People are more important than property.

Failing to appropriately fund our schools creates more pressure on local communities who are forced to make up the state's shortfall by increasing property taxes.

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

I would certainly look at a proposal for tuition-free community college for two years if the students kept a certain high grade-point average.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

We've got the blue-collar pros here in San Diego.

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.

For me, I have a bunch of friends back home in Canada who play online all the time - so we get mic'd up, join the same party, and just play. We are good enough to compete with 'Call of Duty' pros, so, the competition is what keeps bringing me back.

I think that when you sort of look at what's gone on where players are familiar with each other - it starts in high school with AAU. When they get to the pros there's All-Star Games, they share agents and then there's Team U.S.A. stuff. They build relationships.

I want to focus on crimes that affect families and not get distracted going for high-publicity cases. I want to see us move away from politics and focus more on prosecution.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.