Quotes About Interdependence

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Everything in some way connects to everything else. Leonardo Da Vinci

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.