Quotes About Dependency

unsäglich arm, weil sie nichts geben konnte und nur empfing, mit

When you care about someone, they have the power to control you.

Heterosexuals often fall into the trap of expecting all their emotional needs to be met by the other person.

We're the only species that invents all of this stuff to make our lives easier-like a car so that we don't need to walk-then invents something else to take the place of it, like running on a treadmill.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

Not to love God is to be a puppet

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

To have one's helplessness and Ã¢â'¬Â¦ dependency taken advantage of by the person one loves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soon produces an interlinking of love and hate. Because anger toward the loved person cannot be expressed for fear of losing that person Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ambivalence, the interlinking of love and hate, remains an important characteristic of later object relationships. Many

More than half of the Danish adult population—as much as two-thirds, according to some estimates—either works in the public sector or is financially supported by it in the form of benefit payments. The idea, then, of the Danes voting for a reduction in the size of the public sector funded by tax cuts seems about as likely as the turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. The majority will always vote for the status quo because their livelihood depends on it.

We're all junkies. It's just different drugs. I wish I had yours, but I don't.

He had always known that he would be lost without his job and his badge and his mission. In that moment he came to realize that he could be just as lost with it all. In fact, he could be lost because of it. The very thing he thought he needed the most was the thing that drew the shroud of futility around him.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

That's the problem. We're now dependent on Japan—and I believe America shouldn't be dependent on any nation.

Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. You can get attached to just about anything, can't you? he says.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

For geniuses, they are really dumb," she said. "Some of them are really pampered: They can't even put together a cardboard box. They don't think you do something. They think you call somebody.

All around him men hunched over their BlackBerrys. They wanted

recalls Avishai Margalit. "You discussed people. It was a constant thing, a constant puzzle: What makes others tick? It comes from the shtetl. Jews were petty merchants. They had to assess others, all the time. Who is dangerous? Who is not dangerous? Who will repay the debt, who won't repay the debt? People were basically dependent on their psychological judgment.

For there is not so complete and perfect a part that we know of nature, which does not owe the being it has, and the excellence of it, to its neighbours.

Aid programs are not intended to effect serious social betterment. At best, they finance piecemeal projects of limited impact. More often, they are used to undermine local markets, drive small farmers off their land, build transportation and office facilities needed by outside investors, increase a country's debt and economic dependency, and further open its economy to multinational corporate penetration. Free Market for the Few

One-fifth of America's petroleum consumption goes to producing and transporting our food.)