Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

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

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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

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

So dependent is man on man, and so much does this dependence increase as society advances, that hardly any labour of any single individual, however much it may contribute to the whole produce of society, is of the least value but as forming a part of the great social task.

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

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

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