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.
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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