David Blunkett Quotes

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

We believe that “we are all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you are on your own”.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

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.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.