Amitava Kumar Quotes

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

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.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

No act of government can save the world.

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.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

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.

We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.

I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

No matter how many shows or how much work we do, we are not going to make a difference. It's only the masses that will make a difference.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

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

We are one and the same. Our hearts beat as one. If we put our hearts into it - the fashion industry, any industry - our lives will be changed in the process, and the world will be changed as well.

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.