Self Quotes

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Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. — Ronald Reagan
Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In… — Charley Reese
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people… — Abraham Maslow
One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all… — George Washington
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness… — George Washington Carver
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches,… — Brian Tracy
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to… — Elbridge Gerry
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals. — James Monroe
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his… — Murray Rothbard
Never follow anybody else`s idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you… — Rajneesh
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never… — Rajneesh
The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are. — Rajneesh
It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we… — Robert E. Quinn
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. — William Matthews
One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have… — Michael Josephson
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred. — Eve Ensler
To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am… — Richard Gere

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