Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Independence ... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

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

We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.