Dependence Quotes

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Ambition, Virtue, Fit

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness, Future, True

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War, Understand, Victory

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

Love, Young, Old

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom, Government, Made

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
Hillary Clinton

India, Oil, Asking

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan

Turn, Safety, Net

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Power, Wrong

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
John Salazar

Food, Down, Energy

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly

Others, Charming, Total

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Fred Allen

Love, Through, Around

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.
Al Gore

Energy, Support, High

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
Roh Moo-hyun

History, Today, Through

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

Knowledge, Science, Another

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley

Best, Feeling, Country

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
Jim DeMint

Government, Political, Order

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
John Gay

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
Paul Gillmor

American, Year, Hurts

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski

Change, Energy, Problems

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
Bernie Sanders

Revolution, Country, Small

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.
Carre Otis

Past, Down, Often

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
Dan Lipinski

Time, American, Countries

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
William Shenstone

Money, Single, Friend

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna

Nature, Nothing, Themselves

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.
Evan Bayh

America, American, Able

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
Ron Kind

Done, Addiction, Seen

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
Ruth St. Denis

Life, Beauty, Real

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Omar Bongo

Political, Give, Wish

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
Christopher Dawson

Life, Live, Feeling

By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.
Jim Ryun

Down, Energy, Create

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