Dependence Quotes - Page 10

• You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

  Scott Walker

  4th Of July, Government, America

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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Hands, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.536, Library of America

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• Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Judging, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.237

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• Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Promise, Deceiving

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• You know, we can't keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil, and the need to deal with global warming, and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God's creation, and just let business as usual go on. And that means something has to be taken away from some people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Mean, Talking

  "Special Edition: Sojourners Presidential Forum". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2007.

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• Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Real, Believe, Self

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• Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.

  Mike Pompeo

  Energy, Fuel, Electricity

  "Untapped U.S. option: Energy exports" by Rep. Mike Pompeo, www.politico.com. January 15, 2013.

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• What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Struggle, Poetry

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• I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Charity, Poverty, Facts

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• Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Wonderful, Form

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• I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Army, Government

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• Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Independent, Independence, Desire

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• The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Work, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!

  Walter Raleigh

  Taken, Events, Matter

  Attributed in "Testimony: its posture in the scientific world" by Robert Chambers, Volume 2, (p. 12), 1859.

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• Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Giving, Merit

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

  John Adams

  Peace, Ignorance, Men

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• If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.

  John Tyler

  Numbers, Example, Remember

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gains, Spirit, Certain

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Maturity, Men, Self

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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• For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Order, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.13, Routledge

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• In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.

  James Madison

  Government, Political, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.341, Harvard University Press

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• Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.

  Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

  Running, Science, Impact

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• Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Chariots, Collections

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• Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

  David Wallace

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

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• I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

  John Mortimer

  Lonely, Growing Up, Father

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