Quotes About Interdependence

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

I like being on my own, but at times when I don't, I'll phone a friend or the grandchildren.

In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

Moses' arms soon became so tired he could no longer hold them up. So Aaron and Hur . . . stood on each side of Moses, holding up his hands. —Exodus 17:12

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. —Ecclesiastes 4:9

We all receive, every day, the gifts of the Deep World, from the air we breathe to the food we eat

We can no longer think that the fate of humanity and that of the nonhuman world are independent of each other

True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be free and autonomous.

Any beings who would destroy another WORLD always destroy themselves first.

That which you call nothing is what holds all things apart.

William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I love people as I meet them one by one. People are just wonderful as individuals. You see the whole universe in their eyes if you look carefully. But as soon as they begin to group, as soon as they begin to clot, when there are five of them or ten or even groups of smallest two, they begin to change, they sacrifice the beauty of the individual for the sake of the group.

We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F

The phenomenon of reflexivity is a form of systemic causation.