Jose Maria Aznar Quotes

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

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

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

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

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.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him.

We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere.

Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

The tenets of my cultural teachings are rooted in our commitment to lift up every community member so that no one is left behind. Work and food were shared equally. Through our commitment to community, we care about children, even when they aren't ours, and we want our old folks, and yours, to live their last days in dignity and comfort.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.