Quotes About Dependency

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.

We get along fine. In return for food and shelter, they give me unconditional indifference.

We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.

Hemos preparado una civilización global en la cual la mayoría de los elementos cruciales dependen profundamente de la ciencia y la tecnología. También hemos dispuesto las cosas de tal forma que casi nadie comprende la ciencia y la tecnología. Esto es la receta para el desastre. Puede que podamos seguir así por un tiempo, pero tarde o temprano esta mezcla explosiva de ignorancia y poder nos explotará en la cara.

Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's-- hate ....

There were benefits to working with addicts. They didn't even realize they were slaves.

Help is a gift that one must never grow to expect.

Îi l?sase s? le înl?nÈ›uie de el cu propriile mâini, s? se legene în iluzii de m?rire È™i în l?comie, s? devin? sclavi, dependenÈ›i de false speranÈ›e È™i dorinÈ›e nebuneÈ™ti.

The interwovenness of our lives is the source of our solidarity. But it also lies at the root of our mutual harm.

Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable.

Them's the vermin: them who take what little we can earn or make with our hands so as to promise it right back to us, expecting us to be thankful at their kind hearts; them who tempt good people to be lazy so they can rule us like they do sheep at a trough; them who took our freedom and our ways. Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. I don't know what the world's coming to.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

here is the new thing and here it is. And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don't know what you would do without it. That was what the technology was doing. It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round.

I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.

Life is addictive. If people complain overmuch, I think I will have to draw that fact to their attention.

Oh Mom, I never realized how much I still need you. Do we ever stop needing our mothers?

Then they'd both watch him get drunk. Family values, that's what he called it, what he threw in Julianne's face whenever she tried to leave him. Family values was a threat, the cudgel he used to keep them forever locked with him in battle.

if you like to spend a lot of your time at a café, it may not be because that particular café is so interesting. It may be because you're afraid of being alone; you feel that you always have to be with other people. When you turn on the television, it may not be because there's a fascinating program you want to see; it's because you're afraid of being alone with yourself.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

I don't play any instruments. I don't produce. I don't know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team - otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.