#selves

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#applies #certain #equally #etc #instruments

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ↗

— Robert Burton

#develop #efficient #few #men #power

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. ↗

— Jack Levine

#characters #independent #individualists #like #most

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#enslavement #entails #free #freedom #must

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#because #been #between #call #clear

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#defend #educate #educated #enough #learn

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

#alone #bad #better #everything #exertions

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks. ↗

— David Wells

#enhance #game #guys #had #make

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #done #hand #made #measure