Quotes About Dependence

There's a difference between needing to be saved and asking somebody who cares about you for help.

So." Penelope slapped her hands on her thighs as she turned back to Lydia. "I was wondering if you could help me out." "Oka-a-ay." Lydia drew out the word to convey her great trepidation. This was how Penelope sucked you in. She didn't tell you to do things; she told you that she needed your help.

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

The bourgeoisie . . . has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent asunder.

Louise remembered that odd fluttery feeling of having a freewheeling baby inside you, independent and dependent at the same time, an eternal maternal dialectic.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

Believe things, rather than man.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

Credit . . . is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.