Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Community. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Community Quotes And Sayings by 82 Authors including Josiah Royce,Jean Vanier,G. Bruce Kirkpatrick,Henri Nouwen,Jane Jacobs for you to enjoy and share.
A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions. -- Josiah Royce
We will only stay in community if we have gone through the passage from choosing community to knowing that we have been chosen for community. -- Jean Vanier
Lets build a community -- G. Bruce Kirkpatrick
Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. -- Henri Nouwen
Some who are fortunate enough to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand that they can't afford to lose it; but after it is lost, gradually even the memory of what was lost is lost. -- Jane Jacobs
A community that excludes even one of its members is no community at all -- Dan Wilkins
In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate. -- Jean Vanier
A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul. -- Pope John Paul Ii
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. -- William Baldwin
Instead of waiting for community, provide it, and you'll end up with it anyway. -- Jen Hatmaker
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me. -- Joan D. Chittister
I think the writers of 'Community' have moved on from my character. I'm pretty sure. I would love to go back on. I had a really good time and I really liked that character, but I don't think it's going to happen. -- Eliza Coupe
If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude. -- Henri Nouwen
The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis, embracing diversity in a unified whole, resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole. -- Corinne Mclaughlin
We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions. -- Bryant Mcgill
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves. -- Rob Sheffield
Community, Identity, Stability -- Aldous Huxley
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats. -- Cameron Sinclair
A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. -- Alice Hoffman
I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated. -- Sally Phillips
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy
in fact, the opposite. -- Jean Vanier
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. -- Lissa Rankin
Ultimately I found my community by pursuing what I loved: writing, acting, art, coffeehouses. -- Laurie A. Helgoe
Sometimes you have to put back in the community. -- Beeban Kidron
the knowable community - to -- Raymond Williams
A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals. -- Augustine Of Hippo
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. -- Jean Vanier
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace -- M. Scott Peck
A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them. -- Robert Reed
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In a world where superficial relationships are the norm, real and authentic community is refreshing. -- David Bouchard
It is hard to create community when the sheer number of options generate a system in which no one is in the same place at the same time. -- Rebekah Nathan
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. -- Bell Hooks
Enjoying the benefits of living and loving in community empowers us to meet strangers without fear and extend to them the gift of openness and recognition. Just by speaking to a stranger, acknowledging their presence on the planet, we make a connection. -- Bell Hooks
Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. -- Sherman Alexie
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness. -- Albert Einstein
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place. -- Dee Hock
Without community, there is no liberation. -- Audre Lorde
The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community. -- Dorothy Day
Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions. -- Harry Browne
When we establish human connections within the context of shared
experience we create community wherever we go. -- Gina Greenlee
A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow! -- Jean Vanier
There is nothing quite so comforting like being part of a community. -- Abdulazeez Henry Musa
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. -- Henri Nouwen
If we are going to survive, we must build communities of caring and connection. CECILE ANDREWS -- Mark Sanborn
The sense of community is that feeling of togetherness that brings us comfort. We are all alone in the world, so we strive to form bonds with others to eliminate that sense of feeling alone. -- Del Suggs
We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security ... Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems. -- John Gardner
Community is like peace in that it is a result instead of an action. Peace results from acts of justice and behaviors of love. Community also emerges out of loving behaviors - like compassion and an embrace and forgiveness - and out of acts of justice. -- Scot Mcknight
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal. -- Jean Vanier
A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals
a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family. -- Carroll Quigley
The forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run. -- Wes Jackson
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. -- Valerie Solanas
The happiest people are the ones with the most community. -- Barbara Kingsolver
It is no accident that our business, The University of Phoenix, is one of the top 50 community-minded companies in America. My father and I are strong believers in the concept of community. -- Peter Sperling
What its children become, that will the community become. -- Suzanne La Follette
I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it. -- Robert Greenblatt
My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I've done, they all share that theme. -- Thomas Vinterberg
We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community. -- Philip Yancey
We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us. -- Jay Weatherill
Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely. -- Joe Lieberman
You can't fake community, you can't force it, either. -- Chris Brogan
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. -- Howard Thurman
Life is lived in common, but not in community. -- Michael Harrington
Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques
actually defensive bastions against community. -- M. Scott Peck
It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community. -- Jean Vanier
The person who's in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other. -- Charles Eisenstein
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. -- Miranda Raison
The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better. -- John Henry Fischer
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit. -- Donald Glover
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit. -- Bill Hybels
The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement -- John Dewey
In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean -- Jean Vanier
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'. -- Julia Gillard
Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection. -- Richard Cornuelle
One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others. -- Ben Edwards
A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born. -- Michael Meade
The sense of community is indispensable ... to full self-realization. -- Herbert J. Muller
A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift. -- Jean Vanier
Authentic community is the sweet aroma of the gifts offered to our Lord on the day of His birth. -- Alan De Jager
A community that is engaged and working together can be a powerful force. -- Idowu Koyenikan
Trying to live without community is like trying to live without oxygen. We weren't created to do it. -- Jefferson Bethke
Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth. -- Ezra Taft Benson
For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end. -- Jim Rash
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A community that engages readers and culturally enabled people to connect, support and harness intellectual and cultural capabilities. -- Ashwin Sanghi
The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual and social environments, which supported children, young people, families and the aged. -- Ken Wyatt
When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold. -- Adam Mansbach
The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced -- Carl Rogers
The spirit of community will be revived as we succeed in devising ways to reinvolve people in solving the perplexing problems they see about them, not just in talking about them, and certainly not in petitioning government to solve them. -- Richard Cornuelle
I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out. -- Gillian Jacobs
History. And from history came community. And community was something that spread out beyond itself, resulting in towns and nations. But it all began with family. -- William Kent Krueger
To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination. -- Bell Hooks
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives. -- John Zerzan
As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference. -- Mary E. Demuth
The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work. -- Shane Claiborne
The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be. -- Genevieve Dewey
OPPORTUNITIES TO build friendship and community don't always come at the most convenient times, but we have to grab them when we get the chance. -- Shauna Niequist
