Quotes on Interdependence

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.