The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
~By Aristotle ~
More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.
~By Robert Menendez ~
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
~By Li Peng ~
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
~By John Barton ~
My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
~By Andy Garcia ~
There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.
~By Teri Garr ~
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.
~By William Herschel ~
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
~By Bo Jackson ~
In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.
~By Nick Cannon ~
What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.
~By Susan George ~
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
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.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
~By William Baldwin ~
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
~By Brigham Young ~
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
~By Felix Adler ~
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
~By Adam Schiff ~
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
~By Jane Byrne ~
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
~By Ahmed Chalabi ~
As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
I've never worked with the Java community.
~By Miguel de Icaza ~
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.
~By Emma Bonino ~
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.
~By Alan Autry ~
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.
~By Alan Autry ~
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
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.
~By William Blackstone ~
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
~By Rick Larsen ~
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
~By Hans Kung ~
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
~By Burton Richter ~
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
~By Derek Bok ~
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
~By William L. Jenkins ~
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
~By Ed Smith ~
Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.
~By Andrew Goodman ~
Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
~By Carl Karcher ~
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
~By Mitch Albom ~
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~By James Inhofe ~
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
~By James H. Douglas ~
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
~By Joe Biden ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
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.
~By Pam Grier ~
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
~By Mary Douglas ~
We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
~By Tony Campolo ~
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
~By Robert Scheer ~
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
~By Scott Stapp ~
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
~By William James ~
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.
~By A. Philip Randolph ~
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
~By Tony Campolo ~
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
~By Val Kilmer ~
Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.
~By Jon Porter ~
You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.
~By Teri Garr ~
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
~By John W. Gardner ~
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
~By Richard Masur ~
If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
~By Thomas Babington ~
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
~By Jerry Costello ~
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
~By Hansie Cronje ~
For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.
~By Sela Ward ~
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
~By Robert Mueller ~
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
~By Jan Egeland ~
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
~By Judith Light ~
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
~By Tom Allen ~
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
~By Robert Peel ~
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
~By Henry Hampton ~
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
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