Dependence Quote by Michael Pollan

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

— Robert Gilpin

“The more varigated and complicated a society, the greater the chance that those at the top will be ignorant of the realities at the…

— Tony Judt

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better…

— John Stuart Mill

“The globalization and competitiveness of the world economy will ultimately result in the absolute division of human beings into two classes, and the more…

— Aaron B. Powell

“The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities and to…

— Rudolf Rocker

“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands…

— Joan Smith

“The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Wesley J. Smith

“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions often at…

— Jean Vanier

“People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.”

— Steven D. Levitt