Quotes About Interdependence

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

The world and my being, its life and mine, were one. The microcosm and macrocosm were at length atoned, at length in harmony. I lived in everything; everything entered and lived in me.

We are pressed, pressed on each other,We will be told at onceOf anything that happens

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.

the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.

but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.

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

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

People you loved were supposed to love each other.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

We're all in this together ... alone.