#crutch

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#called #child #crutches #disease #had

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. ↗

— John Dryden

#alone #crutch #enough #reason #strong

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. ↗

— Eric Church

#because #big #crutch #getting #happening

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#any #beginning #caused #crutch #good

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#crutch #depend #ends #some #someone

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#brought #crutches #death #east #east side

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#crutches #hours #love #our #wings

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#changed #consolation #crutch #evidence #harm