Quotes About Interdependence

Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without garbage, rats starved or became lunch for the raptors nesting in burnt-out skyscrapers.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

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

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Por qué debe temblar cada persona y cada país por la existencia de un país hostil? Porque cada uno busca su beneficio del momento, sin subordinarlo a la prosperidad y al bienestar de la comunidad. En todas partes se busca el camino hacia una existencia feliz y alegre por encima de la renuncia y la autolimitación.

If the Epic of Gilgamesh carries a teaching, it is that the other makes our existence possible.

We live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand and hand into the arena; they are crucified alone.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.

Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do without anyone.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

Cuando el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente.

When the Individual feels, the community reels.

Lo que el hombre ha unido, la Naturaleza no puede separarlo.

el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente -citó Lenina.

Everyone belongs to everyone else, after all.

Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one…

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.

Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176).

We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel uneasy.