Community Sayings & Quotes
These community sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. - Noam Chomsky
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significance's as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way, an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language. - Benjamin Lee Whorf
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. - John Stuart Mill
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. - William James 'Will' Durant
Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. - David Rockefeller
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. - John W. Gardner
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. - Renata Adler
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor, it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. - Aristotle
In view of the meaning given to this honour in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. - Boris Pasternak
Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values. - Charles Caleb Colton
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. - Robert Maynard Hutchins