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"The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community."
"I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories."
"The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind."
"No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives. So whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is less important than the right to be free to live it out, without discrimination, harassment, injury, pathologization or criminalization - and with full institutional and community support."
"The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity."
"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity."
"Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people."
"I think conservatives should be confident in our beliefs and go push them everywhere we can and go to non-traditional communities. It's a no-brainer."
"The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other."
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
"It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential."
"His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community."
"I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community."
"A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes."
"How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe."
"Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us."
"We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community."
"The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ..and have a good relationship with the community."
"It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity."
"In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going."
