A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. George Orwell
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Michel de Montaigne
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. William McKinley
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. Rumi
It is difficult to throw a stone at a lizard which is clinging to a pot. African Proverb