Nick Hanauer Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

The major forces in human nature: self interest and caring for others

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

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

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

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.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.