Quotes About Dependency

With my anxiety, I essentially need to be around someone at all times.

Computers will be the death of us all.

In Athens the first police force was recruited from among the slaves because it was considered beneath the dignity of the free man to deprive another free man of freedom. What a sound instinct! Here you have the almost naively striking expression of the dependence of the bureaucrat on the property owner: it is the slave who is the bureaucrat because bureaucracy is the slave of the possessing class.

our genteel lifestyle seemed guaranteed for all eternity by the availability of cheap labor.

Rodeado por herramientas todopoderosas, el hombre queda reducido a ser instrumento de sus instrumentos.

Una vez que un hombre o una mujer ha aceptado la necesidad de la escuela, es fácil presa de otras instituciones

Man's consciously lived fragility, individuality and relatedness make the experience of pain, of sickness and of death an integral part of his life. The ability to cope with this trio autonomously is fundamental to his health. As he becomes dependent on the management of his intimacy, he renounces his autonomy and his health must decline.

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

School prepares people for the alienating institutionalization of life, by teaching the necessity of being taught. Once this lesson is learned, people loose their incentive to develop independently; they no longer find it attractive to relate to each other, and the surprises that life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition are closed.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational tasks. Work, leisure, politics, city living, and even family life depend on schools for the habits and knowledge they presuppose, instead of becoming themselves the means of education.

The child is alone only in the presence of someone.

I once said: 'there is no such thing as an infant' meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.

We have taken government and turned it into a surrogate parent, even a surrogate self, as we let regulation replace conscience. We

Cold, cold water, surrounds me now, and all I've got is your hand.

we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet.

He was hooked to machines with a nursing staff at his beck and call.

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

What you don't get from having a mother versus being a mother is how consuming it was, how profoundly one-sided. The child's job was to need her mother less and less, a progression toward independence. But the mother's job was to always help, always be there when needed, and never, ever stop worrying.

Co-dependency i? a way of ?v?iding ?n?'? own lif? b? t?king ?n th? ?r?bl?m? of ?n?th?r. Codependents t?nd t? ?v?id th?ir own liv?? b? tr?ing to solve th? problems ?f ?th?r people.

Sin?? their childhood ?ir?um?t?n??? were both familiar ?nd n?rm?l t? th?m, th?? ?ub??n??i?u?l? may ?l?? ?ttr??t, now ?? ?dult children, those with similar u?bringing? u?ing ?ixth-??n?? intuiti?n? ?r id?ntifi??ti?n?, creating a third ??d???nd?nt m?nif??t?ti?n.

Dependency carries with it resentment. that's inevitable. If people believe they cannot survive without each other, a relationship can be more like a prison than a partnership.