Quotes About Dependency

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

we women are the most pathetic. First of all, we have to buy a husband. Spend vast amounts of money, just to get a master for our body – to add insult to injury.

Free as air; that's what they say- free as air. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

Az embernek táplálék kell az élet mindkét végén: elÅ'bb anyamell – aztán szentély. Ami mellé odaheveredhet, amikor már senkinek nincsen szüksége rá…

Emotionally, at least, people can't live by taking in each other's washing.

One in every three pills taken by Americans, for example, are generics produced in India, which itself gets two-thirds of pharmaceutical ingredients from China.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás. El jefe es un subalterno.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás.

La verdad es que las cosas que tenemos nos tienen ellas también a nosotros en contrapartida: lo que poseemos nos posee.

Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy and her part in it. It was not that she had ever forced her way on him. That had never been necessary. Her way had simply been the air he breathed and when at last he had found other air, he couldn't survive in it. He felt that even if she didn't understand at once, the letter would leave her with an enduring chill and perhaps in time lead her to see herself as she was.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Whoever thinks... that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.

A lot of people need technology to survive. And if you're renting it and you don't own it or have control over it, you're at the mercy of whoever does.