#selves

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#commodities #equipment #find #hi-fi #home

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#control #destiny #fail #long #make

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#action #always #best #better #get

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. ↗

— Karl Marx

#change #circumstances #different #expose #form

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#human race #men #men and women #race #selling

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#even #fear #fearsome #godlike #know

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves. ↗

— Theresa May

#being #feel #imposing #meet #people

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#bad #captive #go #idea #might

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#elements #fact #facts #ideas #matters

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#complain #fact #find #governors #greatly