Douglas Alexander Quotes

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

We are the world.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on the basis of 'togetherness.' Thus the most crucial factor in accepting the new reality and confronting its opportunities and risks is our willingness to develop shared norms on all levels.

I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.