#ourselve

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#cynicism #destroy #disillusion #effectively #just

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#decided #domestic #fellow #how #know

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#contrary #examine #inward #men #ourselves

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#arms #eating #famine #fighting #money

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. ↗

— Ben Elton

#believe #bother #got #group #i

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#between #consequences #disconnect #happening #knows

I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now. ↗

— Dave Foley

#being #big #carry #hall #how

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#feel #insecurity #must #ourselves #secure

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #being #contributed #everything #full

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#know #never #ourselves #really #stupidity