Quotes About Interdependence

Tribal people get more out of life.

For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others, knowing that he was not his own man? "So

If you want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

"One's not half of two, two are halves of one."

A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

We cannot stand alone. With 80 million people in this world of today, you cannot, when you just stand on your own, achieve much even though you may be economically strong.

No, nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.

Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?

This is the justice that we are learning from the ecologists: you cannot damage what you are dependent upon without damaging yourself.

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

The interaction, the interdependence, of life and death, which in nature is the source of an inexhaustible fecundity, is the basis of a set of analogies, to which agriculture and the rest of the human economy must conform in order to endure, and which is ultimately religious....