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“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.”

“We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”

“Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.”

People Knows Feels Children Feelings Depends Needed Comfortable Independent Dependent Good Feeling

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.”

Film Moving Rooms Wonderful Stage Directors Dependent Performers Mystical

Author:Marshall Brickman

“We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.”

Thinking Doe Would Be Values Language Decision Technology One Thing Bases Method Dependent Decision Making Excluded Good Place High Technology

Author:Ann Druyan

“We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.”

Want Children Christian Pain Joy Mother Suffering Humanity Lost Black White Poor Common Rich Jew Connected Dependent Nationality Ethnicity Rich Poor Common Humanity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact that we are ourselves dependent on and distributed over and in a way made up out of the world and processes around us then we can explain certain questions that we otherwise cannot explain and moreover we discover that we are not aliens in a strange world.”

People Ifs World Way Made Facts Certain Asks Process Strange Aliens Dependent Strange World

Author:Alva Noe

“You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who can go to heaven are those who wish to be dependent on God, but those capable of building the Kingdom are those who can let God depend on them.”

Should Persons Heaven Wish Building Depends Letting Go Capable Kingdoms Dependent Heavenly

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.”

Government America Economy Definitions Dependent Socialist Federal Government Socialist Economy

Author:Christine O'Donnell

“I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?”

People Ifs Thinking Aspect Dependent Insecure Modernity Pluralism

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.”

Ifs Different Would Be Form Language Given Imagine Concepts Series Notion Patterns Analysis Dependent Categories Imagine That Lacking Expressive Configuration

Author:Edward Sapir

“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.”

“The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive.”

Ifs Men Needs Facts Century Willing Method Slave Dependent

Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis

“Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.”

Character Poor Relation Dependent

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?" they generally answer "No, thank you." This leads to falling birthrates everywhere women are not kept enslaved and ignorant of the alternatives.”

Body Fall Answers Objects Baby Slave Size Productions Your Body Ignorant Alternatives Dependent Labour Slave Labour

Author:James Nicoll

“If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.”

Ifs Want Littles Play Women Roles Too Much Impossible Crush Dependent Fragile Fascinated

Author:Marina Abramovic

“A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.”

May Existence Return Cost Resources Function Entrepreneur Firm Dependent Transactions

Author:Ronald Coase

“To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative.”

“. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.”

Ifs Giving Children Wisdom Grows Born Growing Up Influence Dependent Omnipotent

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.”

World Economic Debt Administration Dependent Massive Economic Success

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

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

Made Lasts Literature Creatures Dependent Promotion

Book:Faust: A Tragedy

Source: Faust: A Tragedy

“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.”

Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.”

“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman”

Effort Quality Sea Skills Demand Rivers Weight Size Fishes Boat Dependent Lakes Fishing Concentration Mastery Fisherman

Author:Charles Ritz

“My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.”

Light Bounds Endless Dependent Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.”

Men Want Wells Wisdom Suffering Order Politics Economy Cost Mass Competition Productions Active Liberalism Dependent Insecurity Owners Exploits

Book:The Great Heresies

Source: The Great Heresies

“I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.”

Thinking May Mean Helping Hands Suffering Fall Politics Economy Land Source Exercise Areas Liberalism Dependent Treatment Monopoly Lordship Irrigation

Author:Grover Cleveland

“There is more to life than material well-being. Who would claim that the wholly wage-dependent family enjoys the dignity, the security, the range of choice and the autonomy (not to mention the leisure and freedom) of the family even partially supported by capital ownership?”

Wells Wisdom Choices Politics Enjoy Economy Security Materials Dignity Claims Well Being Range Liberalism Dependent Leisure Ownership Autonomy More To Life

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.”

Mind Spiritual Ability Buddhism Degrees Infinite Access Clarity Dependent Finite Undertakings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.”

Science Life Is Interesting Buddhism Dependent Helpful Categories Classification

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.”

Success Attention Careers Buddhism Details Dependent Flash Attention To Detail Continued Success

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.”

Success Ability Careers Buddhism Activity Determine Dependent Manifest Business Success Success In Life Willpower Success And Failure Interpersonal Interpersonal Relationship

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.”

Literature Nations Space Generations Changed Creatures Increase Mortals Dependent Runners Diminish Torches Living Creatures

Author:Lucretius

“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.”

World Doe Spirit Force Social Atheism Worship Models Appeals Permanent Tension Dependent Distraction Rhetoric Sensibility Organize Respectable Piety Variables Revitalization

Author:C. Wright Mills

“As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.”

“Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.”

Care Gone Successful Lessons Boards Being Successful Dependent Speakers Adviser Motivational Speakers

Author:Eric Thomas

“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.”

“Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.”

Play Life Is Suffering Chance Existence Teaching Conditions Blind Mere Disappear Karma Cease Dependent Dependence Removal

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There's a song that wants to sing itself through us. We just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is the most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet or maybe it's a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn't destroy its world. But in any case, there's absolutely no excuse for our making our passionate love for our world dependent on what we think of its degree of health, whether we think it's going to go on forever. Those are just thoughts anyway. But this moment you're alive, so you can just dial up the magic of that at any time.”

“The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.”

Needs Humans Doe Order Differences Human Beings Supreme Dependent Fragile Supreme Being Need God God Does Exist

Book:Discovering the God Who Is: His Character and Being. His Power and Personality

Source: Discovering the God Who Is: His Character and Being. His Power and Personality

“I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.”

Believe I Believe Vulnerable Dependent Greatest Gifts

Author:Steve Southerland

“Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.”

Art Moments Humour Art Is Dependent

Author:Michael Denton

“I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.”

Ifs Writing Mean Ideas Jobs My Family Income Dependent Day Jobs

Author:Jim C. Hines

“Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.”

Whole Difficult Quality Talent Pride Amount Genius Honor Labor Claims Aids Dependent

Author:William C. Bryant

“They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.”

Men Book House Study Students Materials Dependent Best Students

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.”

People Thinking Ideas Dependent Wishful Thinking

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.”

Humans Ideas Truth Dependent Intercourse

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales