Quotes about Interconnectedness

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.

Human beings are by their nature social and political, living in community even more than every other animal.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

You are part of my existence, part of myself.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language

Every man is tabernacled in every other, and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.