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Quotes About Dependency

A large user base helps shield us from things we can't control. You can spend years catering to a major corporation, for example, only to see your contact there move on.
~ Jason Fried
We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.
~ David Suzuki
The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
~ Michael Mandelbaum
Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and therefore we are legitimate.
~ Shelby Steele
I've been drinking and using since I was 13.
~ Jack Osbourne
Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
~ Sean Parker
I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.
~ Tom Holland
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~ Iris Murdoch
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
~ Naomi Watts
We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children's health insurance. And I had an acute awareness as a child of what happens when people go without access to health care. I also had an acute awareness that people's lives were not valued the same.
~ Leana S. Wen
Commoners had to prostrate themselves before high-ranking chiefs. All the members of chiefly lineages, bureaucrats, and some craft specialists were freed from the work of food production.
~ Jared Diamond
If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.
~ Jasper Fforde
Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it's universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.
~ Unknown
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
~ Jay Leno
Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizing his surroundings and thus appropriating his actions.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Llegaba a aceptar que Mateo no fuera más que una etapa de su vida- y esto era ya bastante duro-pero no podía soportar ser él una etapa en la vida de Mateo.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Babies are frightening -- raw tyrants whose only kingdom is their own body.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive. You made a world without alternatives, and now it is dying, and your new world already belongs to "they".' 'I
~ Jeanette Winterson
Finance is a slave's word.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dad dinero, y pronto tendréis cadenas
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau