Quotes About Dependency

India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.

We are critically dependent on the Internet, and it's ingrained in our way of life.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

Esclavo es aquel que espera por alguien que venga y lo libere

El dinero siempre es de alguien. En general, de otro.

Always fiercely independent, Ruth's ailment now made her dependent on others—a situation she found hard to bear. Now she had to learn the lessons of submission in times of suffering, and to seek deliverance from

Easily led. And obviously used to being handled by the women in his life. Excellent. It meant that he'd already been thoroughly house-trained.

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down. Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground.

I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all.

Kids are like heroin -- an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.

We also saw that some countries, particularly Argentina and Brazil, had been able to accommodate foreign companies without ceding control over their national interests. We postulated, then, that poor countries in a position of "dependency" on the rich ones could take certain steps toward progress in spite of the existing system. All of this sounds quite elementary and obvious now, but in Latin America in 1968, these thoughts were borderline heresy.

The primary message of Dependency and Development was that the people of Latin America had control over their own fate. Under certain circumstances, we could indeed operate within the existing system. Many alternatives were possible within that system, and the fatalism that dominated the region at that time was entirely pointless, we wrote. There would, of course, be certain restrictions, and we did not advocate blind free-market capitalism.

A veces el Estado, con el pretexto de ayudar a los inválidos, termina por tratarlos como si fuesen inválidos.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not leave a room without knowing that he would at once feel and regret my absence.

El petróleo, hermanos míos, es el nervio vital de la civilización

Quien propicia el poder de otro, labra su propia ruina".

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.