Quotes by Community As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level. Paul Wellstone politicalcommunityresponsibility In a justly organized community, however, government exists to secure the right to life and the other human rights that follow from that primary right. Paul Ryan communitygovernmentrights What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. Paul Wellstone communitydecisionfaith In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. Paul Watson ecosystemscommunitypeople I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. Paula Poundstone librarycommunitypeople In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it. Pauline Oliveros tapecommunityeurope The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. Paulo Freire favorscommunityleader I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy communityhatepeople Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you. Pericles societycommunitymean You have a responsibility when you have a large community. Pete Cashmore communityresponsibility One of the other experts we consulted with, this guy named Dacher Keltner, he was big on sadness as community bonding - I think is the word he used. Pete Docter sadnesscommunitythinking Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other. Pete Seeger communitypeopleyears How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen? Pete Seeger save-the-worldcommunityworld The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in. Pete Seeger richcommunityteamwork Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. Percy Bysshe Shelley communitypowerfullove There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love. Peter Berg politicalcommunitytalking The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. Peter Block communitycaringself The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one. Peter Brook theatrecommunitylaw In really every area of the mayor's life, whether you're trying to fill in holes in the road, trying to keep your community safe, trying to have the robust neighborhood life, or trying to encourage the arts - really at every turn our job has gotten a lot harder under president Trump. Peter Buttigieg communitytryingart Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family. Peter Buffett scalesdependentcommunity«137138139140141142143144145146147»
