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Quotes About Dependency

In our wholly factitious society, to have no cash at all means frightful want or absolute powerlessness.
~ George Sand
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
~ George Santayana
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
~ George W. Bush
Le danger n'est pas dans la multiplication des machines, mais dans le nombre sans cesse croissant d'hommes habitués, dès leur enfance, à ne désirer que ce que les machines peuvent donner.
~ Georges Bernanos
Power makes slaves of us all." & "A habit unchecked, becomes a necessity." - Ed and Luran Warren
~ Gerald Brittle
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
~ Gerald R. Ford
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
~ Edmund Burke
Men have become the tools of their tools.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.
~ Philip Roth
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
~ James Russell Lowell
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
~ Thomas Chalmers
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall, our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.
~ Shirley Temple Black
For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die.
~ Charles Lamb
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.
~ Terri Guillemets
Addiction is an anchor that won't break out.
~ Terri Guillemets
You know, darling, if caffeine ever makes it to the illegals list, you're going to have to register as an addict." "They try to make coffee an illegal, I'll kill them all, and it won't be an issue.
~ J.D. Robb
if caffeine ever makes it to the illegals list, you're going to have to register as an addict.
~ J.D. Robb
Anyway, said Robert, they got a big fright. After that they started dropping pellets in the water and digging latrines and spraying for flies and bringing buckets of soap. But do you think they do it because they love us? Not a hope. They prefer it that we live because we look too terrible when we get sick and die. If we grew thin and turned into paper and then into ash and floated away, they wouldn't give a stuff for us. They just don't want to get upset. They want to go to sleep feeling good.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Un bambino ha bisogno del grembo materno per venire al mondo. Una volta che ha lasciato il grembo, la madre come datrice di vita è una forza esaurita, come il padre. Da quel momento in poi il bambino ha bisogno di amore e di cure che possono venire da un uomo come da una donna.
~ J.M. Coetzee
You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.
~ J.M. Coetzee
You will not live through this if she does not
~ J.R. Ward
John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.
~ J.R. Ward
They are as empty without a young as we are empty without them
~ J.R. Ward