Reliance

Reliance is the condition of being reliant or dependent.

Quotes

• He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
  • Isaac Asimov, in I. Asimov : A Memoir (1994), p. 308

• The dependence of the individual upon society is a fact of nature which cannot be abolished.
  • Albert Einstein, Why Socialism? (1949)

• The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate.
  • Albert Einstein, Why Socialism? (1949)

• Self-regulation is the basis of freedom, and dependence the origin of inequality.
  • Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. 1970. p. 97. 

• He is no longer with me—by my orders—but then that is merely the carrying-out of an order, after all a kind of negative being-with-me, as he would say. As for any independent life which Bashan might lead without me during these hours—that is not to be thought of.
  • Thomas Mann, Herr und Hund (A Man and his Dog) (1918)

See also

• Confidence