#selves

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#body #life #possession #right #soul

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#character #enjoy #general #i #speak

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#afford #aside #being #buy #care

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#democracy #especially #goal #great #less

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#everyone #freedom #frontiers #inside #mean

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#before #british #cannot #conscience #decided

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#injure #only #people #them #themselves

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#bones #couple #design #embarrassed #gave

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#becoming #create #fully #honest #humans