“When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.” PeopleWorldChildrenCountryJobsPoliticalOpportunityNationsWomenCommunityGreaterEconomicEffectsMilitaryConflictEconomicsPerformancesEducationalAccessOur CountryKicksStabilityFewerWomens RightsMen WomenRippleBoostRipple Effect Author:Hillary Clinton
“Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.” DoeEnoughFoundIndividualSocialCommunityWealthPoorPowerfulCommonPowerRichToo MuchMembersGainsGreedProsperitySelfishnessIndifferenceMost PowerfulContractsIntoleranceRich And PoorCommon GoodEthosSocial ContractTrickle DownSelfishness And Greed Author:Hillary Clinton
“'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.” WorldLongCharacterUniverseNationsCommunityLibertyMoralVirtueWiseThis WorldRewardsRevelationsRighteousnessRulersExtinction Author:Samuel Adams
“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.” ShowsOrderGrowthNatureCommunityEconomyEnvironmentHealthySmartBuiltGreenShow MeConservationInfrastructureSmart Growth Author:Will Rogers
“The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.” IfsWellsLooksImportantReasonGrowthNatureCommunityEconomicSmartWell BeingNo ReasonConservationSmart Growth Author:Ed McMahon
“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.” LongFacesGrowthTermNatureCommunityCommonSuccessfulWillingDevelopmentSmartStandardsPressureContraryGet BetterLong TermConservationLowestPlaces To LiveBest PlaceCommon DenominatorLowest Common DenominatorSmart Growth Author:Ed McMahon
“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.” WayWantGrowthNatureCommunityLinesSpaceLevelsSupportEnvironmentGroupsPolicyTypeProtectModelsSmartGreenEmployeeRegionsValleysConservationManufacturingSiliconSilicon ValleyOpen SpacesSmart Growth Author:Carl Guardino
“Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.” IfsUseCareGrowthNatureCommunityLevelsTeacherPlansFailingSmartWorkersIncomeVarietyOfficersConservationHousingEmployersFirefighterRetailRantSmart Growth Author:Carl Guardino
“My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.” PeopleWantHeartDoeYoungCommunityObjectsTownsKneesRiflesPorchSociability Author:Florence King
“I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.” KnowsLongAmericaCommunityConversationSouthEastAsiaSiblingSouth AsiaEast AsiaLong Conversations Author:Ronan Farrow
“I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.” RealFactsHomeGuyHouseCommunityPartyActingKnownForeverCrazyHavensKissingHollywoodEarsEmbraceAssBrokePreservesShockThrownHanging OutLove MakingFew FriendsHouse And HomeKiss My Ass Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.” PeopleDoePurposeCommunityCommonLeaderVisionEnvironmentWiseTeamProduceSoilGardenerCommon PurposeWise LeadersCommon Vision Author:Diane Dreher
“I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.” WorldLittlesMadeWholeCommunityFamilyDoubtEconomicSubjectsSeriousEqualMembersEconomicsImportanceRelationConsiderationUnitsEconomic Status Author:Eleanor Rathbone
“I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not.” PeopleGivingHas BeensPurposeEnergyCommunityOpinionTechnologyIssuesCircumstancesGiving UpProjectsNuclearPeacefulIranTraveledNot Giving UpIranianJewish CommunityNuclear Technology Author:Maurice Motamed
“These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.” NeedsArtEnoughArtistOrderCoursesCommunityEnvironmentMachinesInspiredStudiosNoisePainterThese DaysFactoriesSensibilityBe Inspired Author:Guity Novin
“One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.” HumansProblemInterestCommunityForgetRightsSpecialExpressionVictimCompetitionHuman RightsUnnecessarySpecial Interests Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.” CommunityRolesExerciseInternationalConsistentAssemblyInternational CommunityGeneral Assembly Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.” PeopleKnowsLongCommunityBenefitsLastingLong Lasting Author:Clifton Taulbert
“When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.” PeopleHappensOpportunityCommunityPleasureSupportAll The BestBest Business Author:Chris Brogan
“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.” MenWholeBodyMightTurnsLostCommunityCitiesDyingHavensTasteBusyGravesOccasionsMatesGood TasteBreachUndertaker Book:Lost Haven Source: Lost Haven
“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldDoeLastsValuesCommunityEnvironmentShareMinesBalanceSurvivalResourcesCompetitionCooperationEcosystemsCanaries Author:Rebecca Adamson
“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.” MenWaySaidDifferentGodSpiritLanguageSexCommunityShapesWorshipMessagesHighestFemaleMalesInstructionConsistentlyPreachingIdentificationFaith Community Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson
“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.” GovernmentValuesInterestCommunityClearCostShapesBehaviorAlternativesPerceiveCorporationsEfficientPrevailing Author:Juanita M. Kreps
“When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.” HelpingCommunityNeighborOur Community Author:Jennifer Pahlka
“Our joys will be doubled and our sorrows will be reduced and we will walk our life in community with the body of Christ. When you are with someone else, you are not nearly as willing to give up. So find a friend, be honest and walk together.” GivingBodyTogetherJoyChristCommunityWalksOur LivesHonestWillingSorrowGiving UpBeing HonestBody Of Christ Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.” FirstsLittlesMomentsAbleCultureIndividualBeliefBornCommunityBirthHabitActivityShapesCreaturesBehaviorStandardsPatternsCustomsImpossibilityAccommodations Author:Ruth Benedict
“Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.” ThinkingHumansMeanPersonsEndsStatesFacesIndividualNationsCommunityHuman BeingsFemaleMalesInjusticeHumanismAvailablePracticalsRealisticOppressedOppressors Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
“In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.” ImportantCommunityRolesEqualMales Author:Samina Baig
“Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.” MenLifeInspirationalKindUseCommunityMoneyResponsibilitySpecialAfrican AmericanMaking MoneyBridgesBetter LifeContributingContribution To SocietyBuilding Bridges Author:A. G. Gaston
“The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and everywhere different to meet their needs in their environments. Anarchism can be adapted to meet the culture, economics, ecology, and politics of various people or communities. That's the beauty of it.” PeopleNeedsIdeasDifferentCultureCommunityPracticeEnvironmentEconomicsVariousLocalsVersionsRealizationEcologyAnarchismAnarchistAdaptedEcosystemsAdaptive Author:Scott Crow
“I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.” WantWantedActorsCommunityStageNew YorkActressesDrag Author:Lily Tomlin
“The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.” WorldCountryWholeCommunityPoorSituationAreasImprovingExtensions Author:Isabel Allende
“The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.” AbleAmericaLawCommunityCitizensSafetyTexasRule Of Law Author:Rick Perry
“The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.” WantLeftPresidentCommunityPoorTaxesMore MoneyUnemployment Author:Rand Paul
“Monitoring activities is neither new or intrusive. We did that with communities in terms of getting rid of the mob. And cops, believe me, do not want to do this. Do you think they really want to listen to you chant five times a day. However, you should look on the bright side: you might convert them.” ThinkingWantShouldBelieveLooksMightSidesTermCommunityFiveActivityCopBelieve In MeBright SideMonitoring Author:Greg Gutfeld
“Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.” PeopleHeartKindMeanLongSometimesMatterBigsMightCultureTermCommunityLandIsolationExposedButtonsGeographySchoolingRural LifeLong Drive Author:Debra Granik
“Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.” PeopleWantYearsCareTurnsCommunityTaxesIncomeClockIncome TaxSmall Communities Author:Pete Seeger
“My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.” PeopleKnowsArtistCommunityFourComplexesSevenBlockManagersDesignerApartmentGraphicWarehouseGraphic DesignerCusp Author:Grimes
“Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.” ProblemCommunityDealsMoralIssuesIgnorancePrejudiceMental HealthIllLgbtStigmaCollideBlightHealth Issues Author:Stephen Fry
“We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.” BelieveCultureOpportunityI BelieveCommunityViewsAttitudeCuttingPoint Of ViewIsolatedGlobal Community Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.” PeopleThinkingWorldHumansHomeAmericaCommunityCreatingConnectionsChinaJapanRelevantExtensionsSpainTurkeysStarbucksCreating SomethingHuman Connection Author:Howard Schultz
“What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.” PeopleThinkingMatterCommunityStreetsCancerWhat MattersCycling Author:Lance Armstrong
“The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.” PeopleKnowsStillsStatesAbleCommunityAbilityUnitedUnited StatesExampleBillsClintonAthleteCancerWoodsSpeedFallenBritainTigersBansGreat BritainMichael Vick Author:Lance Armstrong
“At Facebook we feel a lot of affinity not just for this community but for any community that is trying to do what Davos is trying to do, which is to share information. And Davos is doing it in a particular way - I think the Facebook approach is obviously more broad-based, we're trying to include everyone in the world. But the goal is the same: bring people together, to share information and make the world more connected, and have people have a deeper understanding of themselves, others, the communities of which they want to be a part and can be a part.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantFeelsTryingTogetherUnderstandingGoalCommunityShareInformationParticularApproachDeeperConnectedBroadsAffinityDeeper UnderstandingDavos Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.” ThinkingLittlesProblemCommunityAttentionMessagesCrisisFundamentalsMarketingCompeting Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.” MenShouldYearsChildrenCountryCausesCommunityCareersFellowsProductiveFellow ManNeighbour Author:David Lilienthal
“Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith.” GovernmentFormCertainNationsCommunityDemocracySecularForms Of GovernmentTrusting Each Other Author:Sue Halpern
“So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.” Has BeensCommunitySpringTornadoes Author:John Gordon Sinclair
“A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.” RealMightCommunityLevelsConsciousnessSocietyTransformationCrisisWesternCurrentsRadicalParadigmDominance Author:Stanislav Grof
“Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.” LoveGivingHumansCultureNationsCommunityLove IsExistenceCoupleReceivingHuman ExistenceGlueGiving And ReceivingReceiving Love Author:G. Frank Lawlis