Collective Aspirations Quotes

We have to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in.

What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm the power of our humanity by giving architecture and substance to the dreams we have for our nation, so that the promised land of social and economic justice that is within our dreams will soon be within our sight.

The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?