Oneself Quotes

If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.

I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.