#Interdependence Quotes

“All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.”

“There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.”

“The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.”

“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.”

“It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.”

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”

“A man is related to all nature.”

“The body and mind are dependent.”

“Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.”

“The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us”

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”

“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.”

“Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.”

“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”

“If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.”

“We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”

“You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.”

“Without justice, there can be no peace.”

“As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.”

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality.”

“Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.”

“No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.”

“In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.”

“I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.”

“Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.”

“In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

“All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.”

“What is and what is not create each other.”

“Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also”

“Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.”

“Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.”

“Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.”

“We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society”

“Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.”

“Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.”

“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”

“All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.”

“Men exist for the sake of one another.”

“Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.”

“The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.”

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

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

“High and low rest on each other.”

“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”

“The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”