Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.
Sophie: It's just this apartment is very... aware of itself.
Batiatus: A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself.
Jack: That sand's not gonna rake itself, Hiroshi.
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
