The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If there's no sense of self, there's no sense of culture. If there's no sense of wisdom, there's no sense of progress.… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out,… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“If I'm to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Feelings are you inner guidance system-your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
“Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“What is the Soul like? It is in the form of projected imagination. When one falsely believes ‘I am Chandubhai’, that additional… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality.… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When is 'our' worldly interaction considered good? It is from the moment 'we' have become saiyamit (in control of one's mind-body and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feels ‘invisible’ in a public sense… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“Except for pure Soul (Shuddhatma), the mind, speech, body, intellect is all subject to vyavasthit (energy that runs the world). It is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
“A kind of unspoken grand bargain was forged between the anti-Establishment and the Establishment. Going forward, individuals would be permitted as never… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
I feel like the demo or the audience for 'The Bachelor' is not used to seeing anything new, so they'll really kind… — Gabby Windey Copy Share Image
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image