Quotes by Community When people wear our Bolivian knits and see who knitted them, they are excited because they know they are supporting this women's cause in Bolivia. And it shows you that we are all connected. It's not a machine making your clothes in a black hole somewhere. There is a human being behind it, and a community there. Maria Cornejo blackcommunitypeople The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community. Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu y Franco youthcommunitypeople We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them. Margaret Thatcher intentioncommunitystills There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community. Maria Montessori atmospherecommunitychildren We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored. Margaret Thatcher communityeuropebelieve A community is like the ones who govern it. Marcus Tullius Cicero influencecommunity We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day. Mahatma Gandhi communitypracticedream Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman learningcommunityeducation It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need. Marian Wright Edelman communitychildrenneeds We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another. Marian Wright Edelman communityhomepeace It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community. Mahatma Gandhi crimecommunitysin The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. Marian Wright Edelman communityjusticepeace Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power. Marcus Tullius Cicero communitymeanpeople The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves. Marcus Aurelius true-joycommunitypeople Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers at the expense of the House, so of course we differ. The President of the Commission, Mr Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community. He wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No! Margaret Thatcher communityhouseeurope When women live rich, in every sense of the word - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - everyone wins: you win, your family wins, your community wins, and the world wins. Marie Forleo communitywinningworld I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith. Marian Wright Edelman communitychildrenhands Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence. Marian Wright Edelman blackcommunityhands Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. Marie Osmond true-happinesscommunity-servicecommunity Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them. Mariel Hemingway communitytalkingpeople«113114115116117118119120121122123»
