Quotes About Interdependence

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

Sheep don't need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

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

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

Daisy 's thoughts after getting tiger back to his cage: That every living being was part of every other living being. That all were part of God. Bound by love. Put on earth to care for one another.

Daisy's thoughts after getting the tiger back to his cage: That every living being was part of every other living being. That all were part of God. Bound by love. Put on earth to care for one another.

The story of one life cannot be told separately from the story of other lives. Who are we? The question is not simple. What we call the self is part of a larger matrix of relationship and society. Had we been born to a different family, in a different time, to a different world, we would not be the same. All the lives that surround us are in us.

a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

People who have been single for a long time tend to be independent. That's not necessarily bad, but you need to remember you're half of a team now.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.

Someone had to make sure that farmers, who grew more grain than their families needed, would sell food to the nonfarmers (the basketmakers, leatherworkers, and carpenters) who grew no grain themselves. Only in an inhospitable and wild place is this sort of bureaucracy—the true earmark of civilization—needed. In genuinely fertile places, overflowing with water and food and game and minerals and timber, people generally don't bother.3

He wanted Eden, and he wanted Pinkie, but mostly he wanted Eden, because together they could make their own Pinkie.

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.

Me doy cuenta que sólo una persona quedará herida sin remedio si Peeta muere: yo. -Yo -respondo-, yo te necesito.

we both know the other's survival means our own death

No one really needs me...I do I need you" Peeta and Katniss

Il bisogno reciproco crea un forte legame. Più forte dell'amicizia, più forte dell'amore.