Quotes About Dependency

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Het eerste waar Nederlanders aan denken, als ze iets willen verkrijgen dat hun eigen land niet oplevert, is niet het zelf te gaan maken, maar het te zoeken in den vreemde.

If you believe you cannot live without a certain person or that your entire existence depends on somebody else, you are setting yourself up to be hurt by that misbelief. If

The special task of environmental historians is to tell stories that carry us back and forth across the boundary between people and nature to reveal just how culturally constructed that boundary is -- and how dependent upon natural systems it remains.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

On the other hand, a man whose labor and self-denial may be diverted from his maintenance to that of some other man is not a free man, and approaches more or less toward the position of a slave. Therefore

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On

He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So

Had I not best look up to him, by whose blessing I live more than by my bread?

Whom do I love? I love someone because I expect something from that person. I expect him to behave in a way that I like. The moment he starts to behave in a different way, all my love is gone. Then do I really love this person or myself?

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

The forces that drove Britain and the United States to control the world's shipping lanes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively, first saw light of day in Greece's need to feed itself with imported wheat and barley.

Debts are the modern day chains that keep us enslaved.