Dependence Quote by Frederic Bastiat

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and…

— Jeremy Bentham

Interdependency follows independence.

— Stephen Covey

“Everyone really is an independent person. When we become a dependent person, we lose our independence. A good part of our work is to…

— Art Hochberg

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society,…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of…

— William Shenstone

“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family…

— Edward Bellamy

“Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially…

— Karl R. Popper

God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Without the pieces there can be no whole and without the whole the pieces have no place. What the hell does that mean? Did…

— Bryan Oftedahl

“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.”

— Frederick Douglass

“The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages,…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the technique of…

— Milton Friedman