#selves

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#class #considered #creature #harmless #hurt

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. ↗

— Irwin Edman

#created #largely #least #myth #standardized

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#circle #compassion #creatures #embrace #free

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#bind #choice #continue #countries #like

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anyone #get #i #loves #people

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#because #countless #dare #freedom #know

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

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

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#begun #consider #future #government #including