As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Not only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work themselves.

It’s important to let your subjects be themselves.

Women aren’t interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

To be the name on somebody’s shirt that they’ve made themselves in preparation for one of your shows – it doesn’t get much cooler than that.

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,“I am the do-er.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the open seas.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

Entrepreneurs see change as the norm and as healthy. Usually, they do not bring about the change themselves. But – and this defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves.

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty orators and silent scholars
died without having understood Being and non-Being.
Ignorants, my brothers, let us continue tasting
the juice of the grape attentively and let
the authorities satisfy themselves
with dry raisins.

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

If capital is privately controlled, then people are going to have to sell themselves in order to survive. Now, you can say, “they rent themselves freely, it’s a free contract” – but that’s a joke. If your choice is, “do what I tell you or starve”, that’s not a choice – it’s infact what was commonly referred to as ‘wage slavery’ in more civilized times, like the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.