Quotes About Interdependence

How small, how fragile a human being was. No matter how powerful you might feel, whether magically or physically, ultimately others, in concert, could always stamp out your life.

Humanity is our sustenance! Without them, we have no immortality. Without them, we all die. Humanity and elohim need each other.

Perhaps there was some truth in the implication Taropat had made. Merlan had taken Khaster's place in Tayven's mind. He was the weak and vulnerable one now, and Tayven felt he must help him as he couldn't have helped before.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

To be human is to need others, and this is no flaw or weakness.

It is an ironic paradox: being dependent makes us more independent.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

A dynamic team cannot rely solely on orders; they must be able to read each others' every move so they can act as parts of a coordinated whole.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

I owe my solitude to other people.

My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There were moments when I thought I had to solve everything on my own, and I didn't realize that I had resources.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Everybody needs somebody.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.