David Graeber Quotes

It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

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.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

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

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

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.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

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

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

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

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

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

Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united force.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.