#himself

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. ↗

— George Sand

#because #everybody #hand #himself #how

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

#despise #dignity #himself #his #man

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#advantage #attitude #because #constructed #great

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#himself #knows #man #thinks #wise

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fit #hath #himself #man #moved

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#him #himself #most #out #peaceable

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. ↗

— Yitzhak Shamir

#cares #distances #had #himself #history

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#himself #his #man #only #own

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands