Roger Bacon Quotes

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

So you see, you can't do everything alone.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

We are all fingers on the same hand. We may not look alike, but we are all needed.

Humans can't live independently. We should work together and dream together.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.