Bertrand Russell Quotes

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

We all do better when we all do better.

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."

At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.