Quotes About Interdependence

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world.

Humans needed love to survive. Love was sustenance. Love was life. The more she poured into others, the more others could pour into her.

I'm beginning to think," I say, "Might Equals Right shouldn't mean the strong are tasked with the protection of the weak, because the strong aren't always strong and the weak aren't always weak. Everyone stumbles. And one day, when you stumble - and you will- you'll need someone to help you stand. Will be there anyone eager to do so, or will there be a line of people hoping to kick you while you're down?

Done poorly, Conway's Law will prevent teams from working safely and independently; instead, they will be tightly-coupled together, all waiting on each other for work to be done, with even small changes creating potentially global, catastrophic consequences.

The problems will be mostly resolved once everyone understands how cities and farms are parts of a whole, not divisible one from another. When we all realize that, as we munch our good, fresh food, it will not only mean a better environment for all, but the end to this silly political anger that colors everything blue or red instead of a lovely productive green. Another

The buddhas, the most honored of people, Know that nothing exists independently, And that buddha-seeds arise interdependently. This is why they teach the one vehicle. Things are part of the everlasting Dharma, And the character of the Dharma in the world endures forever. Having come to know this at the place of the Way, Leaders and teachers teach it in skillful ways.

She didn't always have to be the strong one. We can be strong for each other.

In general, then, a universal characteristic of a complex system is that the whole is greater than, and often significantly different from, the simple linear sum of its parts.

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

It is mankind that has survived, not any one man. The fitness includes and depends on social organization, cooperation.

You need someone to take care of you, Maud, whether you want to admit it or not.

things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.

Non è che i poveri fossero più impauriti dei ricchi o più attaccati alla vita, ma avevano, più di loro, la tendenza a vivere in gruppo, avevano bisogno gli uni degli altri e di sostenersi a vicenda, di piangere o di ridere insieme.

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, sociologist John McKnight

I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?

The lover readily imagines that he and his mistress are one. He feels he has love enough for both and that his loving will can swathe the two of them together like twin nuts in a shell. But what one loves is, after all, another human being, a person with other interests, other pains, in whose world one is oneself an object among others.

He was not notably vertebrate and could hardly look after himself, so how could he look after Crystal?

How can we not be dooms to each other?

We all live in the interstices of each other's lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.

the Earth in general can only support so much animal life, and for every aditional pound of human beings and his animal favorites, a pound of other animal life must disappear.

Sin la interdependencia humana, desaparece el principal aliciente que ofrece la vida; se esfuman casi todos los valores intelectuales y falta una auténtica razón para vivir. La visualización no puede sustituir la presencia personal. Incluso los propios solarianos se dan cuenta de que la visualización no es más que un sentido a larga distancia.