The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Maida Rutledge: If this refrigerator gets any more fish in it, it will swim upstream and spawn all by itself.
I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.
Determination itself, offers us many ways in achieving than resting on bed with lazy thoughts.
Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.
I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.
What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.
In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.
The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.
'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
