Quotes About Dependency

Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

A huge portion of our lives involves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It is time in which we are directed by the needs and whims of others, and denied the right to make our own choices.

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

People say, 'Well everybody needs a cellphone.' Well, what does 'need' mean? Do you need an iPad? How about a computer? A printer?

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything - your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.