Quotes About Dependency

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

What is technology?... It's another god.

A saint is never consciously a saint- a saint is consciously dependent on God.

God never sends the mouth but he sendeth meat.

Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, "More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me.

What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?

If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

Men can dig wells, but they can't create water.

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.