I cannot take credit for actually having read the following, it was passed along to me by a friend and written by Dostoevsky in the Brothers Karamazov.  I know, I should read it.  Someday.  

"You ask when the kingdom of heaven will come to earth.  It will come, but first the period of human isolation must conclude."

"What isolation?" I ask him. 

"That which is now reigning everywhere, especially in our age, but it is not all concluded yet, it's term has come.  For everyone now strives most of all to separate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life but full of suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation.  For all men in our age are separated into units, each seeks seclusion in his own hole, each withdraws from the others, hides himself, and hides what he has, and ends by pushing himself away from people and pushing people away from himself.  He accumulates wealth in solitude, thinking: how strong, how secure I am now, and does not see, madman as he is, that the more he accumulates, the more he sinks into suicidal impotence.  For he is accustomed to relying only on himself, he has separated his unit from the whole, he has accustomed his soul to not believing in people's help, in people or in mankind, and now only trembles lest his money and his acquired privileges perish.  Everywhere now the human mind has begun laughably not to understand that a man's true security lies not in his own solitary effort, but in the general wholeness of humanity."