Collective Risk Quotes

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of us all.

I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

The impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples.

He who injures one man threatens many.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

It might be a lot easier to take risks if you're part of a group who will look out for one another.

The basic premise of insurance is the pooling of funds from many to cover the costs of some. There are complicated methods for how to do this, but one fact remains consistent: For insurance to work well, people need to be in and stay in the insurance pool.