Quotes About Dependency

First the young, like vines, climb up the dull supports of their elders who feel their fingers on them, soft and tender; then the old climb down the lovely supporting bodies of the young into their proper deaths.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.

OUR MOTHER EARTH CAN LIVE WITHOUT US BUT WE CANT LIVE WITHOUT HER

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

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

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Añora la unidad y hace de todo ser humano alguien incompleto y deficiente a menos que se una a otro, por más realizado y autosuficiente que sea en otros aspectos.

El amor y el ansia de poder son gemelos siameses: ninguno de los dos podría sobrevivir a la separación. Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es autodestructivo, el amor se autoperpetúa.

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are till not totally owning...How can you be a complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself] until somebody else does something?...If it is conditional, it is not totally yours.

The drinking parent lied to the sober parent; the sober parent deceived the drinking parent. Most children of alcoholics have learned that no one can be trusted.

Savages are dangerous neighbours and unprofitable customers, and if they remain as degraded denizens of our colonies, they become a burden upon the State.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Comprenderemos que sin la ayuda y la cooperación de muchos miles de personas, el individuo más insignificante d un país civilizado no podría disponer de las comodidades que tiene, comodidades que solemos suponer equivocadamente que son fáciles y sencillas de conseguir.

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

I loved my brother, but relying on him was like closing a hand around air.