Quotes About Dependency

If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.

My father chose to have relationships at the expense of having a self, a pattern that began long before he met and married Rose.

As Frederic Bastiat put it, "The State is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else."[8]

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.

Government programs didn't arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people's money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

The Welfare ration cards took care of everything, everything that kept you alive and just alive enough to hate it.

Our throughput society depends on insecurity, gluttony, and planned obsolescence. It's how we keep the lights on.

Giah is like the vine that allows us to grape. We are not even the root but Giah has roots and chooses where they drink so that we can flower into a vineyard. But Giah is also a grape to our vine because Giah cannot be our being because however beautiful our vineyard grows our roots are too shallow to support her. That is why we need to work on our thoughts and ascend her roots to reach the wine that quenches us and sore on her through endless time.

No matter how I think we grow, you always seem to let me know it ain't working, and when I try to walk away you hurt yourself to make me stay, this is crazy

child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

She had always been far too afraid of losing her husband, or more properly, the financial parasol North had maintained over her head.

We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

With the milk goes the cow," he said. "With the cow goes the milk.

Acusaba la falta de su compañía cada día y casi a todas horas, y la necesitaba demasiado para sentir otra cosa que no fuese irritación

All animal life ultimately depends on plants if you think about

The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes of actuality; and its existence as you know it in your universe is determined by and dependent upon its existence within other fields, of which man is still intellectually ignorant.

She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress

It was safer in here, there were rules and regular meals, professional care. Mac was a floor you could not fall below. I supposed the ex-cons who kept going back to prison felt the same way. "You

I didn't want to remind her that I was the reason she was trapped in electric bills and kid's shoes grown too small, the reason she was clawing at the windows like Michaels dying tomatoes. She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress.

She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress. "What