Social Dependence Quotes

The masses are our masters; and for every one who looks facts in the face his existence has become dependent on them, so that the thought of them must control his doings, his cares, and his duties.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I'm an irredeemable urbanite. I can't imagine living more than a five-minute walk from my fellow human beings. Other people are vital to my peace of mind.

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

But he knows that no man is an island.

I need my family and friends around all the time. They are always my number one priority, and that will never change.

Without me there could be no everybody.

We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Today, I see that many of our citizens are not free. They are dependent.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government. Then there will be more and more lifeboats launched because fewer and fewer citizens know how to swim. Unlike some pendulums, political pendulums to not swing back automatically; they must be pushed. History is full of instances when people have waited in vain for pendulums to swing back.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves