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.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within us—i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature—in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)

“The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)