Benjamin Franklin Quotes

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

The members of the Church, as members of society, have the same right and duty to promote the common good as do other citizens.

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

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We are the world.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

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.

I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

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

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

Society is held together by trust.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.

Out there you might say there is a moral majority and if you could put them together …

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.