Quotes About Dependency

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

The way we live now is an experiment in which we are the human subjects—treated as objects by the technology we have created. Our apps use us as much as we use our apps.

It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.

We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And

Connectivity becomes a craving.

Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.

One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn't feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.

It takes him long time, but eventually Simon is able to explain. A computer is a magical box that provides endless pleasure for free. Simon is used to constant access to this box—a never-ending flow of pleasures. When the box stops working—or even just briefly slows down—he becomes so enraged that he curses our God, the one who gave

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

At that time Math son of Mathonwy could not live unless his feet were in the lap of a virgin, except when the turmoil of war prevented him.

What will turn the world upside down, we currently still depend on it as humans.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

I don't really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don't know what I would do without it.

I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.

He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.