Quotes about Dependency
It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.
- Jim Rohn
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
- St. Augustine
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
- CS Lewis
Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF.
- Jason Fried
Socialists know that as long as the family remains strong, socialism cannot flourish. So, there's an ongoing attempt to subjugate the home to the government.
- David Jeremiah
he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself. It was evident that the effort of speaking had been much greater than her studied composure betrayed, and that at his first word of reassurance she had dropped back into the usual, as a too-adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms.
- Edith Wharton
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us
- Edmund Burke
Yet weakness—or neediness—is a valuable asset in God's community. Jesus introduced a new era in which weakness is the new strength. Anything that reminds us that we are dependent on God and other people is a good thing. Otherwise, we trick ourselves into thinking that we are self-sufficient, and arrogance is sure to follow. We need help, and God has given us his Spirit and each other to provide it.
- Edward Welch
When your wants become needs, it means that you have put your trust in people. They have become like a god to you. Yet, for some reason, the true God is patient with you. Although you might reject him, he doesn't reject you. And this is everyone's story.
- Edward Welch
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
- Alexander Hamilton
All societies are addicted to themselves and create deep codependency on them.
- Fr. Richard Rohr