Caroline Lucas Quotes

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

Join cooperatively with one another, put aside self-interest, and take on service to the public …

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.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

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.

We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

Public men are bees working in a glass hive.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

I can as well use private [commercial] airlines. I am already used to hitchhiking. I must demonstrate to Malawians that we are in this together. I must be the first person to set an example.

Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen but upon all citizens.

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

A team is supported by the community, and a team must support its community.

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.

We have to support the well-being of society.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

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.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.