Dependency Quotes - Page 6

• In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

  Thomas Harris

  People, Enemy, Making Friends

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

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• Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

  Susan Sontag

  Strong, Feelings, Creation

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.83, Macmillan

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• But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

  Michael Crichton

  Teaching, Animal, Dna

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Creating, Games

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• Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Government, White, Black

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• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  Donald Johanson

  Art, Unique, Animal

  "How Will Humans Evolve?". bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "At Least Somebody Is Talking About Poverty Again" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 25, 2012.

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• The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Pain, Work, Skills

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we have genital mutilation, that we have streets where women with headscarves and burqas are not the exception any more. And that it's getting worse.

  Geert Wilders

  Benefits, Statistics, Killing

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Jesus, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home and abroad. War in this instance is not merely the outgrowth of polices designed to protect the security and well-being of the United States.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Home, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Decay, Virtue

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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