He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.
Interpretation
Accepting help or protection often comes with the expectation of loyalty or compliance.
This quote suggests that when one accepts help or protection from another, there is an implicit understanding that they will also follow certain rules or guidelines dictated by the protector. It highlights the complex dynamics of power and dependency in relationships, emphasizing that assistance is rarely free of strings attached.
In practice
In a discussion about the dynamics of political alliances, one might reference this quote to illustrate how support can come with obligations.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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