Adam Smith Quotes

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

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

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

I need them as much as they need me.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

Our life is made by the death of others.

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

No one person is an island.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

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

It just doesn't work without the others.

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Independence ... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth

When he [the Prophet Muhammed] died, his shield was being held in mortgage by a Jew. This was in the mutual interests of all those concerned. The Prophet (peace be upon him) had to buy things to fulfill the needs of himself and his family. The same sale was beneficial to the Jew who made the sale. Life does not operate on the basis of striving to deprive others of securing their welfare. It can only operate on the basis that our striving to secure our own welfare implies that others can secure theirs as well.

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

Neither capital can do without labor, nor labor without capital.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.