Common Fate Quotes

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

For the first time in history all people on earth have a common present…. Every country has become the moat immediate neighbor of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe.

My story is one of millions, and the others aren't often told.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

The destiny of the well-to-do is not separate from the destiny of the ordinary people.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

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

Don't assume that the interests of employer and employee are necessarily hostile—that what is good for one is necessarily bad for the other. The opposite is more apt to be the case. While they have different interests, they are likely to prosper or suffer together.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

In the final analysis we all inhabit the same planet, we all breath the same air, we all cherish our children’s future, and we are all mortal.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.