Quotes about Interdependence

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

He was no longer an individual, functioning solely to satisfy his personal needs. Something now bound him to every other man and woman in this hangar. All

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.

Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws.

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

Men and women are not interchangeable. There are things men can and should do that women cannot, and there are things that women can and should do that men cannot. So comparing men and women is something like comparing apples and oranges, except apples and oranges are actually far more like each other than are men and women. Apples and oranges can exist without each other, but men and women cannot.

I don't think any relation can work if one dominates. It has to be an equal relation for it to be successful and happy.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.