Themselves Quotes

To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.