Quotes About Dependency

Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.

I am perfectly well aware that May has not a will that overcomes mine, but an inner mechanism superior to my own, a whirling driving-power that is never slowed down by thoughts. She has taught me that one can dine without being hungry, talk without saying anything, laugh from sheer force of habit, drink out of human respect and live with a man in a state of complete servility while maintaining all the appearances of frantic independence.

A man is little use when his wife's a widow. Scottish proverb

In His humanity Christ depended not on His own power, but upon His almighty Father in heaven.

Le persone si riconoscono nelle loro merci; trovano la loro anima nella loro automobile, nel giradischi ad alta fedeltà, nella casa a due piani, nell'attrezzatura della cucina. Lo stesso meccanismo che lega l'individuo alla sua società è mutato, e il controllo sociale è radicato nei nuovi bisogni che esso ha prodotto.

La libera elezione di padroni e schiavi, non elimina né i padroni né gli schiavi" Herbert Marcuse "L'uomo a una dimensione

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

A vicious circle has taken hold of our able-bodied men: they increasingly rely on the government to alleviate the misery created by that same government, not realizing that this dependency only perpetuates their sorry state of affairs.

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete.

The old marchioness had him tracing down bed hangings and carpets for her. Send that. Be here. To her, all the world was a menial. If she wanted a lobster or a sturgeon, she ordered it up, and if she wanted good taste she ordered it in the same way. The marchioness would run her hand over Florentine silks, making little squeaks of pleasure. "You bought it, Master Cromwell," she would say. "And very beautiful it is. Your next task is to work out how we pay for it.

He says he needs mothering." "....Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs a slave.

That boy is your weakness.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

No one in chains could ever truly love you.

todos os membros de sua numerosa família, por mais moços que fossem, acabaram, como ele dizia graciosamente ao seu senhor, por se colocar como um bicho-da-seda sobre as folhas do orçamento.

Heather had grown up starved of love, and when you're starved of something you should receive in abundance, you never quite trust it.

both responded like thirsty plants to water when it came to parental approval.

She was also out of milk, which for a few moments as she stood at the open fridge seemed like the end of the world. She actually stamped her foot. She needed the crunch of cereal contrasting with the coolness of milk.

And if we took away Brian's salary at Schwab and your dad's little allowance, how much money would you have working part-time at that non-profit? Would you be able to afford Bermuda or your two-bedroom in SoHo? Are you more of an adult because two men are giving you the illusion of self-sufficiency?

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.