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“This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.”

Real Facts Faces Energy Nations Clear Economic Security Danger Crisis Independence Oil Alternatives Dependence Foreign Oil Energy Crisis Economic Independence

Author:Jimmy Carter

“The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.”

Has Beens Done Women Race Economic Injustice Injury Womens Rights Dependence Men Women

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.”

Social Progress Economic Fuel Dependence Fossils Fossil Fuel Economic Progress

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things" (on economic laws, the market etc.).”

Law Order Lord Economic Masters Projects Transformation Slave Objectives Etc Technological Dependence Domination Donors Serfs

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.”

Years Firsts Mean Children Ideas Certain Values Force Support Economic Essentials Adults Function Sexuality Primaries Dependence Norm Reproduction Orderly Disruptive Socialization

Author:Adrian Wilson

“Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.”

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.”

Nations Economic Productivity Dependence Idleness

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.”

Men Work Common Marriage Worry Economic Loneliness Illusion Common Sense Factors Release Dependence Indestructible Working Man

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.”

Love Able Support Risk Economic Oneself Dependence

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I think that in the colonial imaginary of the average Mexican, in how it drives us, the economic dependence on the US, and in some cases cultural dependence, is quite palpable, very strong.”

Thinking Strong Cases Economic Average Very Strong Imaginary Dependence Mexican

Author:Bocafloja