Quotes About Dependency

The federal bureaucracy is committed to one thing: making sure they keep their own jobs, even though they don't do them. The larger the bureaucracy, the more corrupt and incompetent it becomes. The losers are those poor people who must turn to the federal government for what they need.

It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

It's a really crappy feeling to realise that your entire outlook on life can be controlled by some little pill.

That father may truly be said miserable that holdeth the affection of his children tied unto him by no other means than by the need they have of his help or want of his assistance

Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense.

Cada uno de nosotros es más rico de lo que piensa, pero se nos habitúa al préstamo y a la mendicidad; se nos acostumbra a servirnos de lo ajeno más que de lo nuestro.

How strange it was to be inside a machine again! All his life he'd been inside machines, whether he realised it or not. Modern houses were machines. Shopping centres were machines. Schools. Cars. Trains. Cities. They were all sophisticated technological constructs, wired up with lights and motors. You switched them on, and didn't spare them a thought while they pampered you with unnatural services.

We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want "someone who needs me" in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for "someone who needs me," someone we can control and manipulate.

Sermaye Mandeville'in öÄŸretilerini iyi kavram??t?r. Bugün çoÄŸu ücretli iÅŸçi bir iki kez ücret alamasa ciddi ölçüde mali darl??a düÅŸecek durumdad?r. Ä°ÅŸçilerin her zaman emek güçlerini satmak zorunda kalmalar?, onlar? görünmeyen ama saÄŸlam zincirlerle sermayeye baÄŸlar.

I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn anyone who may suffer the same fate not to attempt to replace morphine with cocaine. Cocaine is a most foul and insidious poison. Yesterday Anna barely managed to revive me with camphor injections and today I am half dead.

Of two friends one is always the slave of the other, though often neither will admit it.

what's the matter? he asked nothing what do you want me to do for you? i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.

She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. "Pick me up", is the message of a person who keeps falling.

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people.

I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement.

For seven years he had lived bound to her,his every step subject to her scrutiny. She might as well have chained iron balls to his ankles. Suddenly his step was much lighter. He soared. He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being''.

Oh, all that was so far away, almost forgotten. But during her mother's five-day stay in Paris, that feeling of inferiority, of weakness, of dependency came over her again.

How can she explain to Gustaf that within the magic circle of maternal energy, Irena has never manage to rule over her own life? How can she explain that the constant proximity of the mother would throw her back, into her weakness, her immaturity?

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same

Los tubos de la canalización, aunque llegan con sus tentáculos hasta nuestras casas, están cuidadosamente ocultos a nuestra vista y nosotros no sabemos nada de la invisible Venecia de mierda sobre la cual están edificados nuestros cuartos de baño, habitaciones, salas de baile y parlamentos.

Cos'hai?» disse lui. «Niente». «Cosa vuoi che faccia per te?». «Voglio che tu sia più vecchio. Più vecchio di dieci anni. Di vent'anni!». Con questo gli voleva dire: voglio che tu sia debole. Che tu sia debole quanto me.

Az igazi jóság csak olyasvalaki iránt nyivlánulhat meg kristáltisztán és szabadon, aki semmiféle erÅ't nem képvisel. Az emberiség legalapvetÅ'bb, igazi erkölcsi próbaköve, a viszonya azokhoz, akik ki vannak neki szolgáltatva: az állatokhoz. S itt vallott az ember végzetes kudarcot, annyira végzeteset, hogy az összes többi ebbÅ'l fakadt.

Ihmiskunta on lehmien loinen samalla tavoin kuin lapamato on ihmisen loinen. Ihmiskunta on imeytynyt lehmien utareisiin iilimadon tavoin. Ihminen on lehmän loinen, niin luultavasti määrittelisi ihmisen eläinopissa ei-ihminen.

Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se rinde, debe hacer previamente entrega de cualquier tipo de arma.