Quotes About Interdependence

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

But it is clear to me that our survival—both yours and mine—will be dictated by how well you and I can work together." "So we're screwed?

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

To be is to be related.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

The collective strengthens the individual.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Good alliances are made of strong, capable partners.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

I strongly believe that when two secure individuals come together, they nurture each other.

What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.