Own Sake Quotes
211 Own Sake quotes by 172 unique authors
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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth…
— Margaret Thatcher
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We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own…
— Pema Chodron
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The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!
— Edward Abbey
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Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives…
— Plato
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Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important.…
— Margaret Guenther
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Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness…
— T. H. Watkins
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which…
— Lytton Strachey
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Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
— Roger Stone
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Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack…
— Romano Guardini
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If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
— C.S. Lewis
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in…
— Richard Rorty
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Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful…
— Gene Simmons
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We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the…
— Stephen Leacock
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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.…
— Antony Gormley
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If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality,…
— Mika
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I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would…
— Adrian Lyne
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I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
— Peter Hammill
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