W. H. Auden Quotes

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

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.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

We must love one another or die

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We all need each other.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Love each other or die.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

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

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

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.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.