Quotes About Dependency

God gives the milk but not the pail.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow, with its head in the clouds eating air, and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.

I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

You get what you want and you become its slave.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Juan 5:30. No puedo Yo por Mí mismo hacer nada: como oigo, juzgo: y Mi juicio es justo, porque no busco Mi Voluntad, sino la voluntad del PADRE que Me envió.

Even though she was jobless, penniless, and homeless, he was the needy one.

In families like Fred's, much of a child's identity and his illusions of safety depend on feeling enmeshed. He develops a need to be a part of other people and to have them be a part of him. He can't stand the thought of being cast out. This need for enmeshment carries right into adult relationships.