3,462 Quotes About Community

The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

In the land of the rejected, the field is flattened, open to much oppurtunity. Here flourish the weeds and nonstandard quality alike. No one aspires, because there is no pinnacle to reach — just be better than whoever is next to you. It is basic, fundamental, and often rude, with bonus points for creative solution. Hardly ever about who you are, but how you do, it's "run what you brung" not Formula 1.

The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.