Quotes About Dependence

let the Dow Jones plunge and markets all over the world also plummet. Some economists have advocated the decoupling of economies, but the crash in global markets, preceded by the financial crisis in the United States, is a stark reminder of the inter-dependence of the nations of the world, increasing ever since the first true decoupling occurred when God scattered the residents of the original Babylon and formed the nations.

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

Decades of PRI despotism purposefully made sure that the poor stayed poor, so that they would be dependent on the mal gobierno and vote to keep the Perfect Dictatorship in power year after year.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury.

But this dependence, as it exists at present, is not an original institution, taking a fresh start from considerations of justice and social expediency—it is the primitive state of slavery lasting on, through successive mitigations and modifications occasioned by the same causes which have softened the general manners, and brought all human relations more under the control of justice and the influence of humanity.

Good students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of them all: we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives. The expert makes all the important choices; only I, the teacher, can determine what my kids must study, or rather, only the people who pay me can make those decisions, which I then enforce.

We've built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don't know how to tell themselves what to do.

When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.

Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.

The lesson of report cards, grades, and tests is that children should not trust themselves or their parents but should instead rely on the evaluation of certified officials. People need to be told what they are worth.

Angels would be unable to suckle their young at Gaea's breast if they left the great towers. And we could not live clinging to the walls.

she had never been alone to care for her own self one day of her life, nor could it ever have occurred to her that she might become responsible for the well- being of another.

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's a still poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Most people […] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else

I begged her not to leave me. I begged her to stay and help me bear my life.

I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed, follow my lead, oh how I need, someone to watch over me.

Call me before you go looking. I mean it. I'm coming with you." He almost said, whether you like it or not, but Henry knows it isn't a matter of like; it's a matter of need. He saw the gratitude in Paul's eyes and his self-loathing underneath it, hating the fact that he should need to ask Henry to do this thing, that he should be too cowardly to refuse and demand Henry stay home. One way or another, they will both see this through to the end.

I'm lucky to have a leg at all," Heldt had once told him. "The fucking surgeon was a butcher. He should have cut the fucking thing off and handed me a crutch." The cinema was his crutch.