Ovadia Yosef Quotes

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

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

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

Ours is an individualistic society, indeed, and the state must do for the individual what the family does for the older civilizations.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

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

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

We must absolutely take care of one another.