Quotes About Interdependence

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

This was replaced by a widespread and aggressive individualism whereby everyone looks out for himself, at the expense of others and without worrying about the good of society.

Añora la unidad y hace de todo ser humano alguien incompleto y deficiente a menos que se una a otro, por más realizado y autosuficiente que sea en otros aspectos.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.

In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. The labour, too, which is necessary to produce any one complete manufacture is almost always divided among a great number of hands. How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth!

Comprenderemos que sin la ayuda y la cooperación de muchos miles de personas, el individuo más insignificante d un país civilizado no podría disponer de las comodidades que tiene, comodidades que solemos suponer equivocadamente que son fáciles y sencillas de conseguir.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

The whole art of living is to make use of the individuals through whom we suffer.

ReacÈ›ia celorlalÈ›i la purtarea noastr? este comparabil? cu o oglind? pentru c? ne întoarce o imagine a noastr? pe care singuri nu suntem în stare s? o vedem. De asta ceilalÈ›i sunt indispensabili, ca s? ne dea ceva ce nu putem înÈ›elege singuri, imaginea propriului caracter. Cine sunt eu f?r? ca ceilalÈ›i s? îmi dea un indiciu?

The success of any relationship should be determined not just by how happy a couple are to be together, but by how worried each partner would be about not being in a relationship at all.

Everything is connected.

We forget that nothing happens in life independently of other things.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.