David Bohm Quotes

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

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

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.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

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 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.

Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally? Are they all servants? Are they unable to control one another and need a ruler? Or do they become rulers and servants in turn? Is there any true ruler other than themselves?

The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

All things are delicately interconnected.

The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.