Quotes About Dependency

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

Rail as we might against fracking and wars that protect our oil supply, we support those things with our gas furnaces, cars, and taxes. Grieve

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Google, Facebook helps people than people helps people, in today's world

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Nature, our father and mother, gave us all we have got. The state, our elder brother, swipes the lot.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You know you are addicted to Facebook when you log off Facebook, turn your computer off, go to bed, role over, and log onto your Facebook from your phone one last time for the night.

All women crave attention, but Twitter and Facebook exposes all the women that can't function without it.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

There's no future in loving people who are hurt. If you heal them, they don't need you anymore. If you don't heal them, they destroy you.

Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because you're empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.

Never take for granted those you love, those you rely on, those you need the most because one day you may turn around and they will be gone...

The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.