I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.Michael Pollan
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.Thomas Jefferson
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.Carl Sagan
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.Ibn Taymiyyah