#themselves

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#give #importance #inspiration #invented #poets

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#acts #against #always #conscience #every

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#freedom #help #here #lands #lives

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#even #grace #him #less #pure

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#between #considered #depends #difference #different

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#properly #themselves #uses #usually #vague

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#criminals #defence #first #lines #themselves

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#area #category #coach #coaches #different