Top 169 Dependency Quotes & Sayings

Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and therefore we are legitimate.

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

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

Work always triumphs over dependency, as anyone who is engaging in the economy can attest.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Sometimes well-intentioned programs can lead to dependency and cause us to forget we have what it takes to attain the American dream.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Promoting dependency is the Democratic Party's vocation. It knows that almost all entitlements are forever, and those that are not - e.g., the lifetime eligibility for welfare, repealed in 1996 - are not for the middle class.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

Dependency encourages social problems.

With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.

It's the Democrats' same old weakness: much too much dependency on consultants and TV ads rather than mobilizing people.

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

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.

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.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

We might enjoy essays, TED talks, and even Facebook posts bemoaning our dependency on tech, but judging by our enthusiastic adoption of these services, we're all in.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

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

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

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.

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.

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.

The significant disparity in work opportunities for people with disabilities is the direct result of government programs and policies that propagate dependency.

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.

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.

I don't like anything with too much dependency. Children are very dependent, which is probably why we never had them.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.

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

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