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Self Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
- Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
- Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of…
- If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we…
- If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have…
- I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I…
- The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
- Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
- I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one…
- At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as…
- We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the…
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- It is the policy of the Indian government: We can lament the lack of talent in the country because it is easier… — Mak_786
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others. — Ronald Reagan