Top 520 Community Quotes

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.
Santiago Calatrava
Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.
Antony Blinken
Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.
Michelle Obama
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who ‘we’ is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
Alex Steffen
I’m an Air force Brat and I’ve lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay – nurses, hairdressers, designers – people who just had a different way about themselves.
Pam Grier
But I’d say ‘How to Make It in America’ is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
Lake Bell
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Oliver Tambo
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
Lawrence M. Krauss
My greatest work comes in the community.
Marion Barry
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy
One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
Valentina Tereshkova
If the E.U. is to survive… it is based on the fact that for every community that belongs in Europe, there is a place in Europe.
Frans Timmermans
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television’s most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
J. C. Watts
We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don’t realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.
Nyle DiMarco
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
Padmasree Warrior
I am not aware that any community has a right to force

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill
Bisexuality often needs an explanation. It isn’t something you can often ‘read’ on a person, and because of that, bi people sometimes feel like an invisible part of the LGBTQIA community.
Stephanie Beatriz
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
Caitlyn Jenner
When I’m traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It’s a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.
Rachel Boston
Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle of the night sobbing, just trying to process what had happened and wanting to find community around being in a lot of grief and having a lot of rage.
Alicia Garza
Madame Walker selected Indianapolis as the headquarters for her growing business more than a century ago in 1910 because of its central location and thriving black business community.
A’Lelia Bundles
For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there’s no more wasting time.
Lily Rabe
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things – not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.
Steven Pinker
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
Aretha Franklin
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours.
Klaus Schwab
It is so rewarding to have a community that I can interact with. Whether it’s meeting them in person or reading their comments, it’s all so surreal and humbling.
Emma Chamberlain
I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
Amanda Lindhout
My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.’
Joe Biden
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.
Matthew Desmond
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
Aaron Swartz
I want every young Indigenous girl to think about getting involved in their communities. You’re never too young to help with community efforts.
Deb Haaland
The big stadiums get totally packed, and everyone knows the words, and it’s screaming young girls. I met a whole bunch of great Nashville musicians, and they accepted me in their community. Classic rock and country music go well together.
Joe Walsh
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
Saul Alinsky
Skydiving is something I’ve never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
Ann Bancroft
I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
Paula Jean Swearengin
Tap dancing is like… it’s equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it’s like air: it’s like everything else that we need in order to survive. I’m blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.
Savion Glover
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
Alan Bennett
In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
Moshe Katsav
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
John Ensign
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Arundhati Roy
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
Dan Chaon
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
Alain de Botton
We police in America in communities of color and economically challenging community, we police based on the behavior of the numerical minority that is committing crime. That small percentage of people who commit crimes in a community becomes the methods that’s used for the entire community.
Eric Adams
If a natural disaster strikes your community, reach out to your friends, neighbors, and complete strangers. Lend a helping hand.
Marsha Blackburn
It doesn’t take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
David Crystal
People have not really noticed community colleges, but

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.
Jill Biden
One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.
Mario J. Molina
I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels – I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.
K. Flay