Ernst Toller Quotes

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

We all need each other.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

All we have is us. Our only hope of survival is each other.