“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot
Source: The Marriage Plot
“The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, book Report to Greco
Source: Report to Greco
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)
Context: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: God is imperiled. He is not almighty, that we may cross our hands, waiting for certain victory. He is not all-holy, that we may wait trustingly for him to pity and to save us.
Within the province of our ephemeral flesh all of God is imperiled. He cannot be saved unless we save him with our own struggles; nor can we be saved unless he is saved.
We are one. From the blind worm in the depths of the ocean to the endless arena of the Galaxy, only one person struggles and is imperiled: You. And within your small and earthen breast only one thing struggles and is imperiled: the Universe.
“If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.”
Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960) Welsh politician
In Place of Fear, 1952
1950s
“Acquire a peaceful spirit and then thousands of others around you will be saved.”
Seraphim of Sarov (1754–1833) Russian saint
As quoted in The Inner Kingdom (2000) by Kallistos Ware, p. 133.
As quoted in The Folly of Prayer : Practicing the Presence and Absence of God (2009) by Matt Woodley, p. 156.
Variant: Acquire a peaceful spirit, and then thousands around you will be saved.
Variant: Acquire a peaceful spirit, and around you thousands will be saved.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
“All the bridges in the world won't save you if there is no other side to cross to”
Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician
World Upon Your Shoulders
Song lyrics, Diorama (2002)