Quotes by Community You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well. John D'Agata peerscommunityway The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons". John Dewey lessonscommunityschool The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new work, and new visions for our genre. The whole spirit of these anthologies is that there should never be a last word in how essays are interpreted or what they can be. John D'Agata perspectivecommunityshould-have People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. John Doerr technologycommunitypeople I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe. John Darnielle philosophicalpoliticalcommunity I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. John Ensign communitybelievecountry Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible. John Dewey enteringcommunitymay As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a sustainable economy and recognition of the accountability we have to the economies, environments, and communities where we do business around the world. John F. Smith, Jr. communityresponsibilityinspiring The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement John Dewey communityimprovementproblem Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community. John Garamendi communityhousehome So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. John Gordon Sinclair tornadoescommunityspring The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality. John Dewey communityexpressionself We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems. John Gardner levelscommunityidentity What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. John Dewey communityeducationchildren Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function. John Gimlette radiocommunityway Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states. John Gunther arkansascommunityinteresting Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word. John Dewey tendenciescommunitythinking Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it. John F. Kerry communitywarworld The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress. John Dewey communicationcommunityviews The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better. John Henry Fischer communityleadershippeople«8788899091929394959697»
