African Proverb Quotes

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Independence ... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth

We are all members of one body …. The benefit of one is the benefit of all.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

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.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

No one person is an island.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

E Pluribus Unum, the Latin phrase on the great seal of the United States literally translated means one from many. We need to reattach pluribus to unum—the many to the one.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately.

All the brothers shall stand together all shall be responsible for the action of each one.

One of the most important parts of my life has been community.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Leadership is a concept we often resist. It seems immodest, even self-aggrandizing, to think of ourselves as leaders. But if it is true that we are part of a community, then leadership is everyone's vocation, and it can be an evasion to insist that it is not. When we live in the close-knit ecosystem called community, everyone follows and everyone leads.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.