Paul Ricoeur Quotes

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

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 are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

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.

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

We are already and will remain all in the same boat.

We have to stop living on little islands. We must all go for the same goal, be united, or face the consequences.

We win together, and we lose together.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

When I do something, I consult my family, so that when you get me, you get my whole family.

As I go, the team goes. If the team's not going, I'm not going. No matter how good I play, it's still bad.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

I fear that our loss of a sense of connection with, and duties to, each other leaves us unable to effectively address growing inequality and the bitter antagonism between different communities in American society. We've been at our best when we've felt in significant degree that our fates bound up with each other, where we've had a very inclusive sense of the other, and that's now very much not the case.

Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.