Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.