Quotes About Interdependence

sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship

Nobody lives in splendid singleness.

Si el destino de un hombre depende de la desgracia de otro, entonces no existe buena fortuna para nadie.

los humanos somos criaturas gregarias, que no estamos programados para la soledad, sino para dar y recibir.

How would I run with my bad leg? And what would become of the people who need my care? Besides, it doesn't mean anything for me to be free and everyone else slaves, the healer answered. Tete hadn't thought of that, and it kept buzzing around her brain like a bottlefly. She talked about it with her godmother many times, but she was never able to accept the idea that her freedom was irreparably bound to that of the other slaves.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.

The president can't succeed without Congress, and Congress can't succeed without the president. The image of one depends on the image of another. It is not a zero-sum game.

It doesn't matter to me who's the most powerful or profitable country in the world. All countries want to be prosperous. What's happening is a zero-sum game between China and the U.S., where their gain is our loss.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

You are a big country now, but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold, you get pneumonia.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

It is not the services we render them, but the services they render us, that attaches people to us.

Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all.

Friends are a second existence.

We must all hang together, else we shalFall hang separately.