Kiran Bedi Quotes

You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide.

I pay my tax in the belief that you pay yours. I pay for your doctor's visit, in the belief that you pay for mine. In Denmark we don't have gold mines, but we have something more important. We have trust in one another.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

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.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

What is not good for everyone is not good for anyone.

Duty, recognizing an individual's subordination to community welfare, is as important as rights ...

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

The right to private property is inconceivable without responsibilities to the common good.

It Takes A Village

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.

Society is held together by trust.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community...Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

The collective comes before the individual.