Quotes About Dependency

In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island.

Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.

I think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.

Teenagers' relationships with their parents often aren't really explored in much depth, but at that age, it's your primary relationship; they're the people you live with.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.

I use Postmates more than I use the actual telephone app on my phone.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.

If the Internet went down or there was no telly I would be 'oh no, oh no.'

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.

Food in our society is a chronic poverty need, not a life-threatening one. And when we respond to a chronic need as though it were a crisis, we can predict toxic results: dependency, deception, disempowerment.

Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?" "Because it's easier!

American churches are at the forefront of the burgeoning compassion industry, spending billions on dependency-producing food pantries, clothes closets, service projects, and mission trips that serve mainly themselves and inadvertently turn people into beggars.

My father once told me that love is not about who you can live with, but about who you cannot live without.

Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.

I was only going to say that abused people cling to their abusers, don't they? They've been brainwashed to believe there's no alternative." I was the bloody alternative, standing there, right in front of her!

Abused people cling to their abusers.

becos he fucks with people's heads. He's a control freak. he doesn't like anyone having relationships that don't involve him. Either you're a suck up like Hartella or you end up getting kicked out. Ive only lasted this long because he needs me

Some people need to be needed . . .

The strong are free to trust, the weak constrained to.

Who covets more, is evermore a slave.