Quotes by category:Community

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

community mean people

The whole process of raising a family is one of perfecting our own lives. That which we transmit consciously and unconsciously to our children in their rearing in the home and in the community must be the best within us.

community home children

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

quality community men

If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.

healthy community people

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

community solitude writing

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of o... by Henri Nouwen

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

fruit community important

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have been convicted. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have used the Patriot Act to break up terror cells in New York and Oregon and Virginia and in Florida. We've prosecuted terrorist operatives and supporters. These efforts have not always made the headlines but they've made communities safer. The Patriot Act has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do.

september-11 effort community

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

focus community expression

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and the future. Given that films both reflect and shape public culture, they cannot be defined exclusively through a notion of artistic freedom and autonomy that removes them from any form of critical accountability.

differences community memories

Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will need to court a range of different communities and travel across pools, webs, and hubs if they want to reach the full range of desired consumers.

technology community couple

Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

Henry Louis Gates

community goal tree

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

community spiritual heart

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of... by Henry Mintzberg

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

Henry Mintzberg

resources community organization

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of... by Henry Mintzberg

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Henry Mintzberg

learning community knowledge

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

flames community christian

Companies are communities. Theres a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Henry Mintzberg

community working-together people

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Henry Louis Gates

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You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

given community men

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the Go... by Henri Nouwen

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

community solitude feels

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

Henry Mintzberg

private-sector community government