Donald Worster Quotes

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

I owe it to those around me to keep sane. We all do.

There is no such thing as society…There are individuals, men and women, and there are families.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

We are accountable for each other.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

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

In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

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 are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

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

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

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.

Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.

"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.