Communal Quotes

You'll find businesses where you hear Arabic and Hebrew right next to each other. It's not perfect, don't get me wrong, but there is a high level of comfort, where people have reconciled. There are genuine friendships and genuine alliances across communal lines. - Shibley Telhami

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. - Arundhati Roy

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. - Joyce Carol Oates

When I was a teenager in Leeds I was a big Joy Division fan, so I loved New Order too. 'World In Motion' was great, it was a bit subversive in a way. We didn't try to be subversive - we were looking to produce one of those communal moments that brings everyone together. - Danny McNamara

We could take the movie around as well, and not just be playing as the Flaming Lips as a rock band. I'm thinking of taking it to theaters and having it be an experience where we bring in giant sound systems, smoke machines, Christmas lights, s--- falls on you from the ceiling and you can smoke pot and do whatever you want. There's something about the communal experience while something intense and unexpected is happening. I'm sure it will come out on DVD and there'll be a soundtrack, but that isn't the real experience. - Wayne Coyne

We are grateful to the people that they have not allowed this situation to take a communal turn. - Yashpal Singh

We are conducting raids across the city for suspects of yesterday's bombings. We are on the alert for communal tensions but so far the situation is under control. - Navneet Sikera

Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it. - Stephen Biddle

This was the handiwork of anti national elements, who were out to disturb the peace and communal amity in the country. - Rambabu Sharma

These groups try to give a religious and communal color to everything. They are trying to divert the real issue of what is in the medicines. - Dipankar Mukherjee