Quotes About Interdependence

Capitalism has severed the ties of personal dependence only to revive dependence under cover of bureaucratic rationality.

Because we have to answer to one another, and they did not.

We like to think of ourselves as masters of our own destinies, as lone wolves in a dog-eat-dog world, but guess what: Dogs don't eat dogs. They work together. As do most species. As do we.

Perhaps this is the basis of friendships, I do not know. Each man seeks in another that part of himself which is missing. Thus do people make themselves more whole.

All points in space become equal to all other points in space and it is meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property "nonlocality.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

You can only be free if I am free.

Y el amor, en vez de darse, se exige. Y quienes nos quieren desean que seamos eso que ellos necesitan.

He hablado mucho sobre la muerte. Pero voy a hablarte ahora sobre el soplo de vida. Cuando uno ya no respira se le hace la respiración boca a boca; se pega la boca a la boca del otro y se respira. Y el otro empieza a respirar otra vez. Este intercambio de respiración es una de las cosas más bellas que he oído contar de la vida. En realidad la belleza de este boca a boca me está deslumbrando.

Without the Earth, the Sun would be light only, not life.

Kültürlerin çeÅŸitliliÄŸi insan topluluklar?n?n birbirinden yal?t?lmas?ndan çok, onlar? birleÅŸtiren iliÅŸkilere baÄŸl?d?r.

Why are we here if not for each other?

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

no burdens were shed – they were merely passed from the shoulders of one to those of another.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

The economy has gotten bigger, the ecosystem has not. How big has the economy become relative to the ecosystem?

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Somebody will look after things. It's none of your business. Forget about it. Let other people do the worrying.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Bee had been the glue that held them all together, then he was the Velcro. Not as secure, maybe, but there would be an awful tearing sound if he pulled away.

There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own than a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin.