Quotes About Dependency

De dois amigos, um é o amo e o outro o servo. O súcubo e o íncubo.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.

When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

The critical issue was that she was peer dependent, which, given her psychological immaturity, delivered a devastating blow to parenting.

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

Living with an addict is a 24/7 business. It's a bit like having a baby. You're joined at the hip, and every five minutes you're hit with that paranoia: where is he? What's he doing? What's he up to? If he was going somewhere, we made him call us as soon as he arrived; if a journey was supposed to take ten minutes, and he took twenty, we'd be going: why are you late?

Addicts are selfish; it's always, ALWAYS about them.

As we all crave something to protect, so we long to feel ourselves protected. We are all infants before the Infinite...

We could not strike back, for we were starving; and it is the way of the world that when one man feeds another he is that man's master.

You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves.

a multitude destitute of will and of the means of resistance, but profitable in the utmost degree to the exchequer.

It sneaks up on you, Anne-the habit. And after all emotion is gone and logic takes over, the habit is still there. For the rest of your life

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant. Or--as they are, indeed, already, in all but actual fact: obsolete. For, if trouble don't last always, as the Preacher tells us, neither does Power, and it is on the fact or the hope or the myth of Power that that identity which calls itself White has always seemed to depend.

Men do not like to be protected, it emasculates them. This is what black men know, it is the reality they have lived with; it is what white men do not want to know. It is not a pretty thing to be a father and be ultimately dependent on the power and kindness of some other man for the well-being of your house.

Ah! she said, men may be at the mercy of women?I think men like that idea, it strokes the misogynist in them. But if a particular man is ever at the mercy of a particular woman ?why, he's somehow stopped being a man.

It is very frightening to belong to somebody.

men may be at the mercy of women - I think men like that idea, it strokes the misogynist in them.

lands have been robbed of the minerals, for example, which go into the building of railways and telegraph wires and TV sets and jet airliners and guns and bombs and fleets, must attempt, at exorbitant cost, to buy their manufactured resources back—which is not even remotely possible, since they must attempt this purchase with money borrowed from their exploiters.