Quotes About Dependency

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.

The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me—all bearing for someone else to pick.

He doesn't appear much, does he—one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors." It

The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Humans have such a powerful need that their own belief structure be the TRUE belief. If it gives you pleasure, or a sense of security, and it is incorporated into your belief structure, what a powerful dependency that creates.

I learned economics at my mother's knee," Teg said. "Food, water, breathable air, living space not contaminated by poisons—there are many kinds of money and the value changes according to the dependency.

And now we control it?" "To a certain degree. But the important thing is to consider all the Houses that depend on CHOAM profits. And think of the enormous proportion of those profits dependent upon a single product—the spice. Imagine what would happen if something should reduce spice production." "Whoever had stockpiled melange could make a killing," Paul said. "Others would be out in the cold.

a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies--in any system which creates and maintains dependencies. Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host.

Dependency infrastructure is a term that includes all things necessary for a human population to survive at existing or increased numbers

Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy such as water, electricity, fuel, medicines, melange. . . Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die!

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

Humans have such a powerful need that their own belief structure be the 'true belief'. If it gives you pleasure or a sense of security and if it is incorporated into your belief structure, what a powerful dependency that creates!

Hätte Gregor nur mit der Schwester sprechen und ihr für alles danken können, was sie für ihn machen mußte, er hätte ihre Dienste leichter ertragen; so aber litt er darunter.

I wouldn't have a thing, not even my name, since I've given that to you as well.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The argument that capitalism was dependent on slavery is, of course, not new. In 1944, Eric Williams, in 'Capitalism and Slavery,' made the case.

Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.

Wind depends on temperature. Temperature depends on pressure. And pressure depends on wind. It's an intricate mathematical tapestry that is far too intertwined to unpick by hand.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.