Dependence Quotes

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.

You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.