Quotes About Dependency

That divine rest on the seventh day of creation has made clear (a) that YHWH is not a workaholic, (b) that YHWH is not anxious about the full functioning of creation, and (c) that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work.

The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another—that in my book is a working definition of slavery.

Dac? lu?m în calcul potenÈ›ialele beneficii È™i recompense oferite de autoritate, dorinÈ›a de a dobândi È™i menÈ›ine un statut propriu È™i familiar s-a transformat în l?comie È™i dependen?? de munc?. Exist? b?rbaÈ›i pe care vacanÈ›ele îi deprim? ori pe care timpul liber îi streseaz?.

Lo que define el apego no es tanto el deseo como la incapacidad de renunciar a él.

Desde un punto de vista psicosocial, vivimos en una sociedad coadicta a los desmanes del amor.

El apego enferma, castra, incapacita, elimina criterios, degrada y somete, deprime, genera estrés, asusta, cansa, desgasta y, finalmente, acaba con todo residuo de humanidad disponible.

There is the mistaken belief that black people achieved power with independence (e.g., Malaya, Jamaica, Kenya), but a black man ruling a dependent state within the imperialist system has now power. He is simply an agent of the whites in the metropolis, with an army and a police force designed to maintain the imperialist way of things in that particular colonial area.

The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses

I can't." My voice just above a whisper. "I just can't." "Because you won't allow help?" I shut my eyes tight, not answering. "My help?" he asked.

Men are children," my mother instructed me. To her they always seemed pitiable, easily manipulated creatures, good for sex, to be sure, but in important matters not to be counted on.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

Don't tell me I'm responsible for my thirst when you keep all the water.

dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

Worthy charity helps people. Unworthy charity that completely takes over a task makes recipients of such charity dependent.

Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies.

The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.

Sweet Jesus, help me to replace the fearful conversation I have inside my head with constant prayer. Whenever I fall into my old habit of worrying interiorly, nudge me. Remind me to put it all in your hands instead. Act

We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.

Proverbs 22:7: "The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender

There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.

As for power, the man who has it is as much its slave as its master. The use of that power imposes obligations upon the one who uses it,