No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
No man is an island. No man stands alone.
No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.