Quotes About Membership

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

What I appreciate about WP is that they have very clear processes for candidacy and membership. There is no fast track or parachuting.

I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.

I was never in any band, technically.

If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.

My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four temples to 50 temples, there was so much work involved.

Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

My rule of thumb is that no work team should have membership in the double digits (and my preferred size is six), since our research has shown that the number of performance problems a team encounters increases exponentially as team size increases.

Democracy has spread and endured because it has been nurtured and supported: by the norms of the liberal order, by global pressures and inducements to conform to those norms, by the membership requirements of liberal institutions like the EU and NATO, by the fact that the liberal order has been the wealthiest part of the world, and by the security provided by the world's strongest power, which happens to be a democracy.

half of Americans belonged, and today about 70 per cent are affiliated with a local church.

It is not the poor who are joining – persons of all income levels are equally likely to join. Men are almost as likely as women to become Protestants and the unmarried are not different from the married. Young people are slightly more likely than those over 50 to convert.

That, in my view, is the truth in socialism, the truth of our mutual dependence, and of the need to do what we can to spread the benefits of social membership to those whose own efforts do not suffice to obtain them.

Conservatism as we know it today is a distinctively modern outlook, shaped by the Enlightenment and by the emergence of societies in which the 'we' of social membership is balanced at every point against the 'I' of individual ambition.

Durkheim pointed out that you don't merely believe a religion but (more importantly) you belong to it, and that disputes over religious doctrine are, as a rule, not simply arguments about abstruse questions of metaphysics but attempts to give a viable test of membership, and hence a way of identifying and excluding the heretics who threaten the community from within. Religion

In short, freedom belongs to individuals only by virtue of their membership in the 'we'.

Hamilton, back by August 13, dove into a debate that passionately engaged him: immigration. He opposed any attempt to restrict membership in Congress to native-born Americans or to stipulate a residency period before immigrants could qualify for it.

Their strategy was to make clients feel accepted into a private club, as if a Morgan account were a membership card to the aristocracy.

The Amex card was the basic green item, due to expire in a year and a half. He had carried one since 1964, according to the Member Since rubric.

In Oklahoma, and perhaps elsewhere too, Klan membership was automatically suspended for any man called for jury duty, so that he could deny it and not be excluded for bias.

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that