Barack Obama Quotes

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give

Those who stay here can help those who go back, and those who go back can help those who stay here in the same way that when Jews go to Israel, the Jews in America help those in Israel and the Jews in Israel help those in America.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

The idea of service leads to community.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

There's no such thing as an independent person.

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.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

No one person is an island.

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

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

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.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

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

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.

People must help one another. It is nature's law.

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