Jean Vanier Quotes

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought to see it in the way you treat your family, you treat your friends, you treat your community.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

I don't want to have my children have to get dressed up to go out to say good morning and deserve to live among some other people. I want to be able to be free and take for granted that my neighbors like me and I like them.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.