Caroline Lucas Quotes

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.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

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.

2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.

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

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.

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.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transitional, common threats and challenges.

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.

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

We talk about "rugged individualism" and "personal liberty." My dear friends, both of those disappeared from the earth the day the first colony of cave men held a conference around a community fire.

Open societies, open governments, and an open international system are risky propositions. But they are humankind’s best hope for harnessing the power not only of states, but also of businesses, universities, civic organizations, and citizens to address the planetary problems that now touch us all.

We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

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

When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.

Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.

Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.