Quotes About Interdependence

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

Individual achievements are not important for me, to be honest.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

There's something I really love about independent filmmaking. Everyone is a little bit more close-knit, and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

The terrible toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the entire world is a reminder of the interconnection and interdependence of all of our human rights.

But the more isolated people are—the less sense of community and responsibility for one another they feel—the more they turn to money for their comfort and survival.

There was no secret I did not tell him, there was no moment we did not share. We didn't grow up, we grew in; like ivy wrapping, molding each other into perfect yins and yangs

You can choose your friends but not your friendships.

The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together.

The problem with being a family was that every member was affected by the actions of an individual.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

If you lacked ubuntu, … you lacked an indispensable ingredient to being human. You might have much of the world's goods, and you might have position and authority, but if you did not have ubuntu, you did not amount to much.18

A person is a person through other persons.

diverse, connected, interdependent entities whose behavior is determined by rules, which may adapt, but need not. The interactions of these entities often produce phenomena that are more than the parts. These phenomena are called emergent.

Systems that produce complexity consist of diverse rule-following entities whose behaviors are interdependent. Those entities interact over a contact structure or network. In addition, the entities often adapt.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. (Eccles. 4:9–12)

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman