Permanently Dependent Child

Famous quotes containing the words permanently, dependent and/or child:

    “Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

    “Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn
    Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
    He wept that he was ever born,
    And he had reasons.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)