J. B. Priestley Quotes

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

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

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

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.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

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

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

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.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

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.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

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

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong.

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

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 may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.