Diego Luna Quotes

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like... why wasn't I doing that? It's not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it's because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.

I'm just one tiny speck on this earth and I am always mindful of the fact that other people have rights and interests.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

What you think and do affects all other people.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find, then that may be the best thing that you can do. And - also, if you do become a Wall Street banker, I think you need to be aware of what you're doing in terms of your daily work, not just earning money to give a lot away. But you need to think about - am I harming people through the work that I'm doing?

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.