“We must choose to be dependent. There is nothing powerless about the choice to be dependent and it is safe assuming that both people realize that their wellbeing is inseparable from the other person. This is the foundation of interdependence.”

Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s

Source: Wings of Fire, p. 106.

Source: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

A modern public university, Nature Materials 6, 465 - 467 (01 Jul 2007), doi: 10.1038/nmat1935, Commentary.

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2

Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)

Source: 1950s-1960s, Social Choice and Individual Values (1951), p. 85

Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: The issue which I propose for discussion should therefore be clear: how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads — commons that are at least as valuable as silence. Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving.