Interdependence Quotes

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is interdependence that creates strength, not isolation.”

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“There is no "I" as such apart from others.”

— Gyomay M Kubose

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

— Alan Watts

“Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My life is not my own business.

— Anthony Hopkins

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

— Stephen Covey

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

— Alan Watts

“All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

— Tony Blair

There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.

— Pete Newell

“The most powerful gift of volunteering is the knowledge that you are needed, and that we all need each other.”

— Cinzi Lavin

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human…

— Gary Zukav

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

— Marshall McLuhan

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“You are the sum total of the people you meet and interact with in the world. Whether it’s your family, peers, or…

— Tanner Colby

“Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and…

— Judith Butler

In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.

— Max De Pree

...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon…

— Jonathon Porritt

I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on…

— William F. Longgood

In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon…

— Herbert Hoover

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political…

— Eduardo Paes

When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of…

— Jean Giono

9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people…

— Benjamin Barber

Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national…

— Leon Trotsky

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…

— Aldo Leopold

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,…

— Alan Watts

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

“Talking about independence makes me wonder, Who is truly independent in this world? A farmer who grows food is dependent on a…

— Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

“Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also…

— Stephen R. Covey

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were…

— Anthony Giddens

“We give something, and that opens the possibility of receiving: we naturally receive something when we give. This is how we live,…

— Ogyen Trinley Dorje

“Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently…

— Anonymous

“We believe some people are more special, more beautiful, more capable, more influential, more intelligent, more gifted, and have a greater capacity…

— John Lewis

“Tiko has taught me, a sometimes headstrong and often ferociously independent woman, the importance of interdependence, the importance of taking care, and…

— Joanna Burger