Mary Pipher Quotes

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

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

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

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

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 round so that friendship may encircle it.

Like it or not, we are all in this together now, rich nations and poor alike …

For the first time in history all people on earth have a common present…. Every country has become the moat immediate neighbor of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe.

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.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.