The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their… — Kenneth Bacon Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family… — Helen Nearing Copy Share Image
Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children.… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“So, today, I will not make promises to do better, to live healthier, or to save money. These are natural and valid… — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more human and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency." — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image