Pope John Paul II Quotes

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

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

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

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

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

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.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

We all do better when we all do better.

Goods are meant for all.

We are all members of one body …. The benefit of one is the benefit of all.

We shall be one people. Brothers and sisters, indeed it is completely God 's will that we bring our money, silver, and gold together. One person should have just as much as another.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

We must learn for the sake of one another to make better choices guided by more holistic measures of the common good we share.

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

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.