3,462 Quotes About Community

  • Author Mark Eddy Smith
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    It isn't that Gandalf thinks the Shire is not worth looking after, but rather that in order for any land to be kept from utter darkness for many ages to come, the quest to destroy the ring must succeed, and in the darkness into which they are all walking, it is better to trust to the loyalty of friends than to the power of well-meaning strangers

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  • Author Vivek H. Murthy
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    Company' just means that someone is around you. Many of us have company but not true community. Everyone needs community, whether you're the popular kid or the loner.

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  • Author Bell Hooks
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    We can restore our hopw in a world that transcends race by building communities where self-esteem comes not from feeling superior to any group but from one's relationship to the land, to the people, to the place wherever that may be. When we create beloved community, environments that are anti-racist and inclusive, it need not matter whether those spaces are diverse. What matters is that should difference enter the world of beloved community it can find a place of welcome, a place to belong.

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  • Author N.K. Jemisin
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    Perhaps likewise they think Syen enjoys being reminded that she is part of a group now, contributing and contributed to, and that she no longer needs to guard herself against everyone and everything.They're right. That doesn't mean she's going to tell them so.

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  • Author Julius Nyerere
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    I am an individual and I respect my own individuality. But I am an individual and a member of a community. And a community has conditions. All the commandments - Thou Shalt Not - are about community

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