Dependence Quote by Ivan Illich

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for…

— 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work.…

— Pope Francis

“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be…

— Albert Einstein

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.…

— Patrick Colquhoun

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption…

— Samuel Johnson

“The poor are used to stifling any expression of their despair, because they must get on with life, with work, with the demands made…

— Georges Simenon

“The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.”

— Ivan Illich

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

“There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The worst thing…

— Roger Scruton