Quotes about Interdependence

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Everything is connected to everything else: every rock, every living form, is infused by the same force. To say this is to put the lie to a million false dualities, to all the forced seperations between spirit and mind, soul and body, God and man.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

sustainable' justice Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬œ that is, a corporate habit of relation that allows a community to believe that the security of its members does not depend entirely on contingent relations of power at any given moment.

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. - Book VI, 54.