Quotes About Interdependence

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

the United States, led by Wall Street, was becoming entangled financially in the fate of the Entente. Defeat of France, Britain, and Russia could mean their default on their debts; default by the Entente would almost certainly mean bankruptcy for America's leading investment firms, not to mention the corporations that depended on the growing transatlantic business between the United States, the Allies, and their chief entrepôt, the port of London.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner

In civilized society [a person] stands at all times in need of the cooperation and assistance of great multitudes," Smith wrote, "while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship of a few persons.

A world, in which we wouldn't expect anything from others, would be a hell.

I say that it's the joy that others take in me, It's this that is the cause of my delight.

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

Weeds eat seeds they don't produce

No woman was an island. Together, we were an archipelago; together, we were a goddamn continent.

Much like the flower and bee, we as humans are part of nature and, in the same way, hardwired to serve. Whether we give of our time, money knowledge or guidance, we have an innate ability and desire to support others with our resources.

Bir insan?n yaÅŸamakta olduÄŸunu salt kendisinin bilmesi yetmez, insan tek ba??na deÄŸil ki. Ä°nsan?n varolduÄŸunu baÅŸka insanlar?n da bilmesi gerekir. Ne denli insan bilirse o denli daha çok vard?r.

Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

I have long believed that love and will are interdependent and belong together. Both are conjunctive processes of being - a reaching out to influence others, molding, forming, creating the consciousness of the other.

I used to isolate a lot, but now I've been reaching out and leaning on other people.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

We are an industry, and we are all in this together and can't survive without each other. I feel it is high time we realise that. If we go against each other, or if we get happiness from other people's fall, then there is no way we will move ahead.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.