Quotes About Interdependence

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they reached the angle of repose where I knew them. That's where the interest is. That's where the meaning will be if I find any.

Things without people are as dead as the dead. It takes people to make them appear to breathe & live & have quality.

Y no podemos, porque el fenómeno humano se forja precisamente en la relación con los otros: los demás son el caldo de cultivo donde se cristaliza nuestra identidad. No podemos renunciar al prójimo.

La autonomía produce esquemas antiapego y promueve maneras más sanas de relacionarse afectivamente

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

I'm very conscious of the fact that you can't do it alone. It's teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Their isolation was communal," he wrote. "They could escape neither their loneliness nor each other.

Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of "self-sufficiency," and then celebrates it.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the "pluralistic," displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

The plane has wings, but it doesn't fly alone.

We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.

When you make yourself interdependent with other people in this way, as Jacob told his offspring to be, there's no stopping you. Each of you can do something, but together all of you can do everything.

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

One hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face." "A very old Jewish proverb.

Two people in a relationship are like two stars who rotate around each other, attracted by each other's energy, but not dependent on each other.

What we need is a plan B … independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

A cast of professional actors is, from star to bit player, a true democracy, each individual equal to his or her fellow players, interdependent, open-hearted, a member of a team

It is the threat of extinction of large mammals such as tigers or rhinoceros that tends to capture the public's attention, but arguably it is the loss of the smaller creatures that should give us most concern. Insects are responsible for delivering numerous 'ecosystem services' such as pollination and decomposition, and there is no doubt that little life on earth (including ourselves) could survive without them.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

if a friendship exists only because it benefits us personally, then perhaps it's a lesser kind of relationship. Kant would say that friends have to be ends in themselves, not means. Friendship has 'intrinsic', not mere 'instrumental' worth.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.