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INTERDEPENDENCE
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The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of
relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient,
ancient wisdom.
-- Rebecca
Adamson
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The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality
in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence
of all living things, a holistic and balanced view
of the world. All things are bound together. All things
connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the
children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the
web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do
to the web, we do to ourselves.
-- Rebecca
Adamson
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The
good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain
until it is secured for all of us and incorporated
into our common life.
-- Jane
Addams
We
have learned to say that the good must be extended
to all of society before it can be held secure by
any one person or any one class. But we have not yet
learned to add to that statement, that unless all
[people] and all classes contribute to a good, we
cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
-- Jane
Addams
[People]
may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a
house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle,
each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and
thus bringing out the picture.
-- Felix
Adler
There
is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake.
In a time of persistent challenges that still call
into question our most sacred aspirations as a country,
we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our
public debate.
~ Sen.
Cory Booker
We
become distracted from productive labors by our perceived
opponents; we become focused on them and not on our
larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes
more about scoring points against an adversary and
less about advancing our common cause.
~ Sen.
Cory Booker
if
globalization is to realise its potential as a force
for good, we have to look more closely at the means
by which we handle our growing interdependence. We
do not have a world government, but we do have an
increasingly complex network of institutions that
are concerned with global governance. They are central
to our future and international human rights law,
-- Gro
Brundtland
Our
mission in this new century is clear. For good or
ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't
escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our
lives building a global community of shared responsibilities,
shared values, shared benefits.
~ Bill
Clinton
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Let's
create an integrated global community where we have
shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't
fight because of our differences.
~ Bill
Clinton
We
cannot build our own future without helping others
to build theirs.
~ Bill
Clinton
“Even
as people take pride in their national independence,
we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.”
~ Bill
Clinton
We
are more connected than ever before, more able to spread
our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise
the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our
supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our
words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber
and reach those both serious and delirious, connected
and unhinged.
~ Bill
Clinton
When
I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter
and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that
moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence
to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally
- that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
~ Bill
Clinton
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink
in the face of universal interdependence.
-- Jacques
Cousteau
Interdependence
is a fact, it's not an opinion.
-- Peter Coyote
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The
reality today is that we are all interdependent
and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore,
the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving
differences and clashes of interests, whether between
individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
- Tenzin
Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
We
humans are social beings. We come into the world
as the result of others' actions. We survive here
in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not,
there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do
not benefit from others' activities. For this reason
it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness
arises in the context of our relationships with
others. - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
- Tenzin
Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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The
reality today is that we are all interdependent
and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore,
the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving
differences and clashes of interests, whether
between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.
- The
Dalai Lama
I
believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human
beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal
responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just
for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit
of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key
to human survival. It is the best foundation for world
peace.
- Tenzin
Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
"...we
are not going to deal with the violence in our communities,
our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal
with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes
and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we
relate to one another."
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
A
hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner
and outer life depends on the labor of other [people],
living and dead, and that I must exert myself in
order to give in the same measure as I have received
and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to the
simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling
that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the
labor of my fellow [people]. I regard class differences
as contrary to justice and, in the last resort,
based on force. I also consider that plain living
is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
-- Albert
Einstein
Our
life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around
every circle another can be drawn; that there is no
end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under
every deep a lower deep opens.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Interdependence
is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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To
resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent
– or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent
– world requires not just well-chosen words but
sustained and unified action.
~ Prince
Hassan bin Talal
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. --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves
as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If
the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster
a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many
traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities
has been to help us see our connection with all
other human beings.
-- Michael
Lerner
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"All
ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise:
that the individual is a member of a community of
interdependent parts. . . The land ethic simply
enlarges the boundaries of the community to include
soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:
the land."
~ Aldo
Leopold
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"The
whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness
of the interdependence of all these living beings,
which are all part of one another, and all involved
in one another."
-- Thomas
Merton
I propose that there is another kind of power based
not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted
in the social and cooperative relations in which
people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.
-- Frances
Fox Piven
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We should be evolving into a new age of business
with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition—that
all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected
and interdependent.
-- Anita
Roddick
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We should be evolving into a new age of business with
a worldview that maintains one simple proposition—that
all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected
and interdependent.
-- Anita
Roddick
Relationships
are all there is. Everything in the universe only
exists because it is in relationship to everything
else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop
pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
-- Margaret
J. Wheatley
We
know from science that nothing in the universe exists
as an isolated or independent entity.
-- Margaret
J. Wheatley
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's
somebody there to show you the way out. The light
doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family;
for me it was teachers and school.
-- Oprah
Winfrey
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