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Quotes About Dependency

hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them.
~ Margaret Atwood
She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone – to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.
~ Margaret Atwood
Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today's world it's the fuel that drags economy
~ Yatin Patel
If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
~ Charlie Brooker
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
~ Carl Sagan
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.
~ Marshall McLuhan
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
~ Ray Bradbury
Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
~ Charles A. Reich
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
~ J. B. Priestley
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
~ will.i.am
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.
~ Shinobu Yaguchi
Technology and violence are interdependent.
~ Don DeLillo
We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.
~ George W. Bush
In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.
~ Sherry Turkle
Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
~ Neil Postman
I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
~ Mercedes McCambridge