Richard E. Besser Quotes

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

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.

It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

I kind of feel like we're all humans; we all live on this planet. I kind of always wish there was more of a partnership - a really healthy relationship between people, working together to do things and make it good and change.

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.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

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

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

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

Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

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.

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

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.