Bill Clinton Quotes

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.

Mankind is a single body and each nation is a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.

See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

World Aids Day is both a day of remembrance and a day of hope.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.