Common Interests Quotes

• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Diversity

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

  Alexander Hamilton

  May, Common, Human Nature

  Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.166

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• Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Friendship, Roots, Belief

  barbara w. tuchman (1972). “notes from china”

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• I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Together, Foundation

  Source: www.profitmagazin.com

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• Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

  Ordway Tead

  Art, Communication, Matter

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• Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

  George Bancroft

  Character, Joy, Stories

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.64

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• So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Differences, Attention

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.

  Sara Ahmed

  Pain, Struggle, Commitment

  Sara Ahmed (2013). “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.189, Routledge

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• Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Mean, Air

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Civilization, Community

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• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

  Irving Langmuir

  Home, Awards, Mind

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• There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Government, Class

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

  Bernard Berenson

  Passion, People, Enemy

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

  Denis Healey

  Law, People, Trying

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• Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Differences, Together

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• Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Teacher, College, People

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• Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

  Audre Lorde

  Moving, Racism, Competition

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.48, Crossing Press

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• We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.

  Wu Bangguo

  War, Thinking, Differences

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• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  Samuel Gompers

  Struggle, Impossible, Common

  Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.33, University of Illinois Press

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Independent, Civilization

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• The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

  Bernard Crick

  Political, Together, Politics

  Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.97, A&C Black

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• We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

  George Soros

  Leadership, Responsibility, Humanity

  George Soros (2007). “Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror”, p.25, PublicAffairs

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• Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Sacrifice, Reality, Competition

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