Quotes About Interdependence

One thing is overlooked, which is this: That the kind of dependence that results from exchange, from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent on the foreigner without the foreigner being dependent on us. Now, this is the very essence of society. To break up natural relations is not to place ourselves in a state of independence, but in a state of isolation.

There is no doubt that two nations, the same as two men, unconnected with each other, may, by working more, and working better, prosper at the same time, without injuring each other.

Branche le monde...

Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

She could find no join, no place where she ended and Bear started. In that first clumsy embrace of the spirit, they had tangled themselves hopelessly, she supposed. Whatever happened, wherever she went, there would always be Bear. Whoever knew her, or liked her, or loved her, would have to accept Bear. She could even love herself a little now, knowing that she was Bear.

It occurred to her that she and Clent were a good deal like clock hands, one large and one small, often pointing and striving in opposite directions, but always linked and bound to come into line sooner or later.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.

People, people who need peopleAre the luckiest people in the world.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But, on the whole, every individual and every race must work out its own salvation.

The most wonderful thing about this whole process is that people's contributions to the lives of others become the primary means of getting the results they want in their own lives.

I guess it's like an airplane: they're the drag and we're the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we're nose-heavy, too much of them and we're tail-heavy—it's a matter of balance.

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

We diminish people when we don't allow them to help us, or when we act like we don't need anything from them and they have nothing to offer us. We also diminish them when we allow them to go on and on, even after we've exceeded our capacity to pay attention.

As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being.

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone.