Quotes About Interdependence

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups, but let us not think that they as individuals have any viability apart from their group.

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.

Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

Without women, we stood in space on one leg only.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.

Some women and men seem to need each other.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.