Quotes About Interdependence

I didn't want to be trouble to anyone," I said. "Everybody has to be trouble to somebody.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat, from the river that wears it away. The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it; the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents; the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space. Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same. A

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

You are my connection to the place in myself where I am love, and I can't get there without you.

For most of human history, we appear to have lived in tribes of seventy-five to 150 people. Those who could not handle the complexity of the relationships would go off on their own. Lions need to eat, after all. Today

Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

One Without the other is nothing

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

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

You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.

looking out for the other guy isn't just good for the soul; it's good for business. The

one can't really separate out any individual's contributions from those of others. Even in the context of technological change, most inventions entail the synthesis of preexisting elements rather than invention de novo. Today, at least in many critical sectors, a large fraction of all advances depend on basic research funded by the government.

together and disappear when the conditions change. None of them

The grouper could wait until the gobie was finished removing ectoparasites, then eat it, yet refrains from doing so.

One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.

If we do not allow the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either.

This web of intricate connections

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, be the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.

Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.