Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.
Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
Karl: Whataya say, pal, let's give ourselves up and let 'em hang us. This is no life for murderers.
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
