Help people help themselves. Don’t make people dependent…

A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

— Frederick Lenz

“The second most common misconception about love is the idea that dependency is love...Its effect is seen most dramatically in an individual who makes…

— M. Scott Peck

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

— Benjamin Carson

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

— Paul Harvey

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other…

— Samuel Johnson

The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for…

— Angela McGlowan

“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it…

— Jim Rohn

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“This context dependency means that rather than causing X, testosterone amplifies the power of something else to cause X.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that…

— Wangari Maathai

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their…

— John Dewey

To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.

— Fumio Sasaki

We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

— Sharron Angle