Quotes about Interdependence

If they be so two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other dar doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.

No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .

No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.