Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.

The tenets of my cultural teachings are rooted in our commitment to lift up every community member so that no one is left behind. Work and food were shared equally. Through our commitment to community, we care about children, even when they aren't ours, and we want our old folks, and yours, to live their last days in dignity and comfort.

We are the party that hears the stories of people, the struggles.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

What Americans do is we come to each other's aid.

I moved in with a roommate who told me, 'Stay with me until you can afford rent. Don't give up.' People who supported me were like, 'If you don't have money for food, I'll cook you dinner. You don't have money for acting class? Let's get together and read lines.'

The role of citizens, of Christianity, of humanity, is to take care of each other, not for Washington to steal from those in the country and give to others in the country.

I have done work for everyone because all are Brijwasi.

I keep going back to Flint for one reason: the people. They still have hope. They just need to know that there are other people who still care about them.

We should continue all the time to look out for those who have less, to stand for those who can't, to reach out across differences, to use our land intelligently, to open our borders and welcome those who seek harbour, and never, ever cease to be curious, ask questions, and to explore and search.

After all is said and done and institutions fail, people still have some ability to care for each other.

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

Islam, for example, like so many other faiths, stresses the importance of mutual solidarity with our fellow man.

I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.

Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other. If you are one whose money speaks of protection and hoarding, you will find yourself involved with others whose money speaks the same language. You will be staring at each other with hooded eyes and closed fists and suspicion will be your common value. If your money speaks of sharing, you will find yourself among people who want their money to speak the language of sharing, and your world will be filled with possibility.

If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.