Jacques Cousteau Quotes

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

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

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..