Dependence Quotes - Page 19

• The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

  Richard Cobden

  Race, Two Nations, People

  Letter to M. Michel Chevalier, September, 1859.

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• There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Men, Primitive Man

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• Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

  Paul Kurtz

  Ignorance, Caring, Keys

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• Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Attitude, Independent, Men

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 15), 1952.

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• A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Economic, Nations, Idleness

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• Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.

  Stella Benson

  Mother, Husband, Son

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Jesus, Principles

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.526, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.

  George Washington

  Broken, Hurtful, Staff

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• This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Fuel, Today

  FaceBook post by Jim Wallis from Jan 22, 2015

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• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

  Linda Ellerbee

  How You Feel, Temperature, Feels

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• bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Doe, Bonding

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• Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

  Jeremy Collier

  Taken, Mind, Wonder

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.28

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• The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Giving

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  Fanny Fern

  Bread, Tough

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.319, Rutgers University Press

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• Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Sex, Mean, Expression

  Robert C. Solomon (1987). “From Hegel to Existentialism”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Independent, Reality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Heart, Hands

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• Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Long, Independence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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• Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Police, Democracy

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• God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

  Charles Stanley

  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

  Ayn Rand

  Goal, Political, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Independence, Misery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2402, Manonmani Publishers

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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