Dependence Quotes

409 quotes by 331 authors

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price.… — T. Boone Pickens
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest… — Seneca the Younger
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — E F Schumacher
The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth. — Andrew Napolitano
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others… — Hilaire Belloc
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children… — Caryll Houselander
Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace. — Pope Benedict XVI
We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics — Tony Juniper
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always… — Michael Dorris
The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well… — Vince Lombardi
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away… — Benjamin Franklin
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those… — James Madison
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. — James Madison
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. — Alyssa Milano

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