“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.” WorldFactsCommunityPowerfulHappenedExamplePainfulDependentSeptemberIntegratedGlobal Community Author:William J. Clinton
“Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.” ShouldFactsWould BeBeliefMoralProveAcknowledgeAssumptionDependentFactualMoral Beliefs Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may also be called an ecological view, if the term "ecological" is used in a much broader and deeper sense than usual. Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of all phenomena and the fact that, as individuals and societies we are all embedded in (and ultimately dependent on) the cyclical process of nature.” IfsWorldMayWholeFactsUsedIndividualProcessTermViewsSeeingAwarenessFundamentalsDeeperCollectionsDependentUsualParadigmIntegratedEcologicalEmbeddedHolisticInterdependenceWorld ViewSeeing The WorldIndividuals And Society Book:The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision Source: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.” IfsRealEndsFactsYoungMoralIssuesFateGenerationsCenturyDegreesArmyPoliceCharityIncomeOutcomesDependentConcentrationCampsRetiringInflationYounger GenerationConcentration Camp Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.” PeopleIfsWorldWayMadeFactsCertainAsksProcessStrangeAliensDependentStrange World Author:Alva Noe
“The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive.” IfsMenNeedsFactsCenturyWillingMethodSlaveDependent Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis