Itself Quotes

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

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

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

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

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.