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Community Quotes

Community is built, not just found.

These quotes cover community at different scales - a performer discovering their craft through local theater, the identity and security that comes from a shared racial or cultural community, and comedians building connection through shared inside jokes. Related reading in Communities Quotes.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Quotes by William Thomas Stead

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political...

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

Quotes by William P. Leahy

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

Quotes by William P. Leahy

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

Quotes by William P. Young

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do...

Quotes by William Lacy Clay, Jr.

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

Quotes by William Julius Wilson

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

Quotes by William Julius Wilson

Certainly, the emergence of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the Taylor family has been one of the great things that has happened in St. Louis. We are no longer headquarters for McDonnell Douglas, although the McDonnell family is still very much involved...

Quotes by William Henry Danforth

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

Quotes by William Herschel

We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism.

Quotes by William H. McRaven

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

Quotes by William Bratton

We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to...

Quotes by William Binney

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Quotes by William Blackstone

Men are subject to powerful passions and appetites, and, if unrestrained, are capable of ruthlessly riding roughshod over their neighbors and the community at large.

Quotes by William Barr

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

Quotes by Will Wright

Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime...

Quotes by Wilbur Ross

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer...

Quotes by Wilbur Ross

I tried bull-riding... I wasn't good at all: I don't think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I discovered acting through community theater.

Quotes by Wes Studi

The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of 'community' appear in these quotes?
They range from a geopolitical view about European Union expansion and stability, to discovering acting through community theater, to a racial community's sense of identity and security, to the inside jokes a comedian builds with an audience.
Is there a quote about the European Union and Russia?
Yes. One quote states a view that "The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia" - adding that there's "no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same" community. This is presented here simply as the quote's own stated view on EU-Russia relations.
Is there a quote about discovering acting through community theater?
Yes - one speaker recalls trying bull-riding without much success before they "discovered acting through community theater." For more, see Community-Based quotes.
Is there a quote about what a racial community provides?
Yes. One quote says a racial community provides "not only a sense of identity" and the "luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support." For more, see Communities quotes.
Is there a quote about comedians building community with an audience?
Yes - one quote says that when a comedian talks to the audience and builds "inside jokes," it "creates a community." For more, see Community College quotes and Community Service quotes.

One quote takes a wider geopolitical view, tying regional stability to a larger shared community of nations. Browse more in Community Service Quotes or Community College Quotes.