Quotes about Interdependence

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Then they were together so that as the hand on the watch moved, unseen now, they knew that nothing could ever happen to the one that did not happen to the other, that no other thing could happen more than this; that this was all and always; this was what had been and now and whatever was to come. This, that they were not to have, they were having.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Adam means "human." Eve means "life." A human needs another for "life" to come alive and become living. Identity can't grow ferally, only communally. We were meant to eat together, not solo. Eve's solitary eating is what got her in trouble.

True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.