David Luiz Quotes

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

All Soviet People were trying to do something to help the nation.

I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

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

… men who are governed by self-interest will combine, whether white or black, and the generous and selfless will similarly unite

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

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

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.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

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.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.

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..