The Democratic Party has to transform itself. We can't just pop up every two or four years and hope people will support us.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

If the orchestra's not enjoying itself, the concerto will not succeed, with the players confined to using half an inch of bow.

Truly, this is a nation that sees itself as one that instills hope and is really about allowing people to pursue their dreams.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Upon leaving the E.U., Britain will find itself with more opportunities for economic innovation than at any time in almost 50 years.

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

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