George Augustus Henry Sala Quotes

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

My life is not my own business.

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.

In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

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.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

Within each country’s borders, different view exist of the obligations of individual citizens to one another, of provinces and cities to their neighbors, of the large and the small entities to the polity—corporations, churches, and other institutions—to society as a whole.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

No man is an island, especially not Jughead.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.