Dependency Quotes - Page 4

• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Paul Gillmor

  Meaningful, Country, Commitment

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• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

  Terence McKenna

  Motivation, Views, Drug

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Ordinary, Connections

  "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a planet - is not a typical hero's task. It is more the task of a gardener. The planet does not offer us challenges to be overcome to prove our worth or individuality; it presents us with a community to understand, a community with disparate needs and identities that are nonetheless intertwined in mutual dependencies.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Future, Thinking

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• I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

  June Jordan

  Care, Want, Outcomes

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.81, Basic Books

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• We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oil, Energy, Needs

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• Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Numbers, Independence

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• The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Government, America, Income

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• In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Justice, Tools, Attention

  "Quality and inequality" by Zygmunt Bauman, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2001.

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• Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Success, Quality, Details

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• We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

  Stanton Peele

  Mean, Addiction, Acting

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• For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Men, Leaving

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Unemployment, May

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

  Howie Carr

  Thinking, Trying, Attention

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• The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Justice, Political

  "Tincture of Lawlessness". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Oil, People, Climate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Hate, Financial

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.

  Vandana Shiva

  Years, Grace, Pay

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.

  David Limbaugh

  Class, Essentials, Reason

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• Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

  James Bovard

  Political, Vote, Politician

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.182, Macmillan

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• The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

  Dick Morris

  Children, Majority, Population

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• I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Feelings, Sides

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• Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Mean, Promise

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• A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Energy, Losing

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• The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

  William O. Douglas

  Common Sense, Church, Doe

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