Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
Francois HollandeRead
Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.
Interpretation
Solidarity requires mutual responsibility in both challenges and solutions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of collective responsibility, suggesting that one cannot expect support or unity during difficult times while simultaneously avoiding accountability when it comes to finding solutions. It calls for a principle of shared duty where everyone is expected to contribute positively, ensuring that solidarity is not just a demand in times of crisis, but a commitment upheld consistently.
In practice
This quote can be used in a community meeting to emphasize the importance of shared responsibility.
Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.
To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.
ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is not a war of civilisation, as these assassins don't have any. This is a war against the jihadist menace that threatens not just France.
I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leaderβs vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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