Quotes About Dependency

It's funny how many little things you get used to - attached to, even - and never realize until you travel abroad and those things are not available.

I can't be my own mother

He narrows your life. That's what men like Nick do. They pull you away from everything you love so that they are the only thing you focus on." Laura felt the need to add, "If you let them.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

To say that the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital, means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased.

he bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

Nobody — not even "a musician of the future" — can live upon future products.

To say that the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capitalmeans only this; that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs that fall down to him, the greater number of workers that can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent on capital be increased.

Es incapaz de gobernar, porque es incapaz de garantizar a sus esclavos la existencia ni aun dentro de su esclavitud, porque se ve forzada a dejarlos llegar hasta una situación de desamparo en que no tiene más remedio que mantenerles, cuando son ellos quienes debieran mantenerla a ella.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

But separate a man from his car - that's inhuman.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.