#selves

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#concern #fully #lived #lives #never

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves. ↗

— Glenn Close

#protect #vulnerable

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#even #ourselves #trendy

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them. ↗

— Howard Coble

#because #capable #doing #feared #i

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#approve #condemn #conduct #conscience #judgment

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#care #live #love #other #people

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#must #stifle #themselves #try #ugly