Anachronism Quote by John Dewey

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary…

— Gish Jen

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in…

— P. T. Barnum

“People who are dependent live accordingly to the lives and needs of others, and are emotionally blocked from journeying down the road of self-actualisation,…

— The power of negative thinking Tony Humphreys pg 60

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.”

— Wesley J. Smith

“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences”

— Orhan Pamuk

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

It would be nice if you could rely on others, but whatever your always better off being independent.

— Anonymous

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

— Alfie Kohn

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

— Charles Lindbergh

“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