Quotes About Dependency

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

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

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.

Whoever said life without love isn't worth living didn't own an iPhone. These things are great.

I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole and to approve of me.

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

and we might as well give up, because Standard Oil owns everything. He said they own Standard Brands, which in turn own Safeway Stores, which in turn own Pacific Fruit and Produce, which in turn has mortgages on all the farms. He says they are responsible for all the wars and that we are all just slaves being allowed to exist until the time comes when we can go into the trenches to protect Standard Oil.

Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Make no mistake. This is a planet of microbes. We are here at their pleasure. They don't need us at all. We'd be dead in a day without them.

People are so addicted to convenience that they have become trapped in a vicious circle: The more labor-saving appliances they acquire, the harder they need to work; the harder they work, the more labor-saving appliances they feel they need to acquire.