Alan Colmes Quotes

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

We all do better when we all do better.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

It is ... difficult to induce a number of free beings to co-operate for their mutual benefit.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

I lose faith in any cooperative, commonwealth; cannot see how, after all, there will be incentives.

So dependent is man on man, and so much does this dependence increase as society advances, that hardly any labour of any single individual, however much it may contribute to the whole produce of society, is of the least value but as forming a part of the great social task.

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

The collective comes before the individual.

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

Liberals genuinely believe that this country is about helping one another out and doing it for the greater good.