Dependency Quote by A.N. Wilson
““When I left this country, the best part of forty years ago, England still seemed to have a soul. It had pulled together after the war and committed itself to a welfare system …" "Jesus, it was the welfare system which drained this fucking country of its soul—can't you see that? The dependency culture destroyed any sense of having to do something for yourself.””
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![“England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in…” quote by Colin MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3fc/colin-macinnes-53584_baby_england-is-after-all-the-land-where-chil_450470.jpg)
![“[..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.” quote by A.N. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/a-n-wilson-2-82614_friendship_when-a-friendship-has-become-a-matter-of_1576417.jpg)
