Quotes by Community There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community. Kjell Magne Bondevik communitygovernmentneeds A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming. Koichiro Matsuura supportcommunityeducation International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere Koichiro Matsuura literacycommunityeducation I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community. Kofi Annan citizenscommunitypeople In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide. Kofi Annan societycommunityage Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. Kofi Annan familypoliticalcommunity There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier; they are better fed; their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and, eventually, whole countries. Kofi Annan communitygirlcountry Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. Kofi Annan communityskillsorganization Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about. Kristin Chenoweth communitybelievepeople The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth. Kofi Annan communityhumanitypeople Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities. Kurt Squire designtechnologycommunity When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out. Kurt Fuller communityrealtrying In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community. Kylie Tennant communitycitiesmen I wonder what kind of environmental consciousness is to be developed in a family or a community where nature is seen as either an optional thing, not accessible to you, or something completely exotic, unwelcome. Kyo Maclear environmentalcommunitykind These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us. Kofi Annan divisioncommunitybears While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. Lady Bird Johnson communityimportantspirit I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups. Laisenia Qarase groupscommunityneeds Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom. Lajos Kossuth libertycommunityprinciples In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. Lakhdar Brahimi troopscommunitygiving My job as an artist is to take all my thoughts and feelings and put them on your iPod so that you can digest them. Whatever it is that brings you comfort and joy as a mode of resistance, do it. If it's music, that's what I do, that's my mode of resistance, I refuse for the world to steal my joy. If it's church, go to church, if it's working with kids, work with kids, but do something positive in your community that's going to lift you up. Lalah Hathaway communityartistkids«101102103104105106107108109110111»
