Quotes About Dependency

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I can't tolerate cell phones," I say. "For health reasons." "Yech," he grunts. "Those things ruined the country. I don't know how, but they convinced the people that they should spend their whole lives inside a screen the size of a playing card. I'd take a jail cell over that bullshit any time.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

He sits in the straight-backed chair next to the bed and lifts a cooling cup of tea. "If you die, what happens to me?" "I don't know," I say honestly. "If I die, I don't even know what happens to me.

Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.

Nothing could be done about it—every human above the lowest Dregs' Hive poverty class had a comlog with biomonitor, many had implants, and each of these was tuned to the music of the datasphere, monitored by elements of the datasphere, dependent upon functions of the datasphere—so humans accepted their lack of privacy.

Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.

Make no mistake: E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter checking constitute a neural addiction.

And with each new comfort, with each new modern convenience, man slowly dies. He removes himself from his humanity.

both Japan and South Korea are increasingly interconnected with China. Japan's exports to China are about the same as those to the United States—about 20 percent in each case of total exports. Korea is more dependent—27 percent of its exports go to China, as opposed to 12 percent to the United States.

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn't plan work, I couldn't plan vacations, I couldn't plan dinner, I couldn't plan homework, I couldn't plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis.

For a child, there are no such thing as unconditional love, it is all unconditional need.

Marriage is just fancy word to adopt an over grown male child who is no more handled by his parents.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health—and create profitable diseases and dependences—by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

This is the justice that we are learning from the ecologists: you cannot damage what you are dependent upon without damaging yourself.

Whereas his father only ruled him, Aunt Molly owned him outright, at least when he was in the house where she could get at him.