Quotes by Community When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how close by are they? Understanding what we are reacting to can change the way we think about the problem. If, biologically, morality evolved to help us get along with individuals in our community, it makes sense that we have heartstrings that can be tugged - and that they are not going to be tugged very hard from far away. But does that make sense? From a more reflective moral perspective, that may just be a cognitive glitch. Joshua Greene perspectivecommunitythinking As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed. Joshua K. Ingalls communitylandpractice Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. Joshua Ferris communitylonelinesspeople We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love. Joshua Prager communityand-loveadventure Its a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because thats where your community is. Joshua Roman communityhomefeelings We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy. Joshua Wong communityleadershipjustice It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. Josiah Stamp communityresponsibilityintegrity The world is a Josiah Royce interpretationcommunityworld A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions. Josiah Royce communityorganizationmind When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately. Joy Bryant empoweringcommunityhelping Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of the people is critically dependent upon the health system that serves them. It must provide the best possible health with the least disparities and respond equally well to everyone. Joycelyn Elders empowermentcommunitypeople Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community Juan Somavia communityworkheart What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities. Juan Somavia politicalcommunitygiving ... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values. Juanita M. Kreps alternativescommunitygovernment Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community. Joyce Carol Oates communityhouseculture Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks. Judd Gregg bankingsafetycommunity Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind. Joseph Campbell childhoodcommunitychildren Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone. Judith Krug communitypowerfulpeople The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us." Judith Hanson Lasater communityofferingpast What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models. Judah Smith modelscommunityopportunity«9596979899100101102103104105»
