Human Dependency Quotes

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we're thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can't access.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).

We did not domesticate wheat; wheat domesticated us.

All men have need of the gods.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

If we want it, we will have machines who will take care of us.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

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.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social and family relations - and in the last 200 years, they have been disintegrating.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

To give liberty to, or rather, to abandon persons whose habits have been formed in slavery is like abandoning children.

Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.