Quotes About Dependency

purgation deals essentially with our "trust structures," especially those deep inner postures of our being that do not rely on God but on self for our well-being.

We live by devouring those we love. How can we help it? They're the ones within closest reach.

You were useful... But just because you're useful to the wealthy doesn't mean they'll reward you. It just means they'll use you.

That's one of the great things about the feed — that you can be supersmart without ever working. Everyone is supersmart now. You can look things up automatic, like science and history, like if you want to know which battles of the Civil War George Washington fought in and shit. It's more now, it's not so much about the educational stuff but more regarding the fact that everything that goes on, goes on on the feed.

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

Fear is why Fascism's emotional reach can extend to all levels of society. No political movement can flourish without popular support, but Fascism is as dependent on the wealthy and powerful as it is on the man or woman in the street—on those who have much to lose and those who have nothing at all.

If I were valuable to anyone, I would not be allowed to live alone.

But I say this so that you understand what I was up against: that I was worth more to her sick than I was well.

The great chain of fear.

But how glum he looks now. She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: It's hunger, my dear. Good Lord, how dependent men are on food!

Many feelings and behaviors are no doubt left over from childhood. Children feel weak and vulnerable; they are dependent, and they feel that dependency strongly; they don't think much of themselves; they have a constant need for approval; they are very prone to anxiety and quick to anger. They have no patience. To a degree, we all continue to generate some of those feelings unconsciously right on into adulthood. What varies from person

Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.

What does it say that you look like some sort of nut job when you turn your phone off?

Cell phones are to adults what toy rattles are to infants.

it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.

Strippers. Get them a job, then an apartment, buy some clothes, feed them nice dinners, and then they get culture and start making demands. They were an expensive habit, but one he could not break.

She had read somewhere that we often grow to admire, even love, the very thing we so obsessively hate. It can become a part of our life, and we grow to rely on it, to need it. It defines us

The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

The idols of progress and the belief that technology will solve all our problems, he felt were profoundly wrong.

It is simply amazing, at that age, when you're thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.

She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

Why do we need them if we hate them?" the daughter tiredly asked. "We hate them because we need them," the mother answered, her speech slurred.

With our mothers, we are always alone