Quotes About Dependency

Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

I hope that I'm right in my interpretation of the organic grandmother, that mother hunger is a primal trait of womanness, and that my daughter's need for me may prove larger, more enduring, and more passionate than the child's need for meals, clothes, shelter, and applause.

My desolation was that no one knew me and I did not know myself. My family's life was my life. I knew nothing else. I was clothed, fed, given a bed to sleep in, encouraged to marry early and rich, and loved in a generic way -- I was "the big one," which meant the older and my sister was the 'little one" --but no one spoke to me, no one explained anything.

Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.' 'No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.' Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else.

Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

The situation of a man in the midst of a crowd, yet as completely in the power of another, life and all, as if they two were in the deepest solitude.

I can't. Stop...don't go anywhere...don't leave me.

In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

Any complex technology is the product of many antecedents. Destroy the infrastructure of a society supporting such technology and, though the knowledge itself might not be lost, the society would lose the basis on which the tech was built. Members of a human civilization bombed back into the Stone Age are hardly going to be able to build computers from flint and wood.

One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.

people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What is clear is that, to date, computer technology has served to strengthen Technopoly's hold, to make people believe that technological innovation is synonymous with human progress.

As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think

Although others have bodies, a life of their own, their reality is rooted in you, ends in you, as yours end in God.

El agua que bebo, la comida que como, la ropa que uso, la cama donde duermo; todo está determinado por la política, sea ésta buena o mala. La

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

To want to die rather than be dependent and helpless; to try to kill the person you love the most because their future seems mere torment: what does this say about our culture?

we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even

Automation weakens the bond between tool and user not because computer-controlled systems are complex but because they ask so little of us.

Automation severs ends from means. It makes getting what we want easier, but it distances us from the work of knowing.

Mothers, wrote Bellamy, would no longer have "to make themselves hoarse telling the children stories on rainy days to keep them out of mischief." The kids would all have their own indispensables.