Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

Time itself is everything and ‘nothing’.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I think we’re entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it’s in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and...

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the...

That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it’s, you...

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford… The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

There’s a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You’re not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It’s a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with...

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Night was running ahead of itself.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But… Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

It’s important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can’t allow itself to be undermined from within.

Time can and will create itself from nothing.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing – I was on the same...

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there’s a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making...

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself.

When I’m writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I’m trying not to get in the way.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of… environmental disasters that might be there.

Reddit, which calls itself ‘The Front Page of the Internet,’ is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it’s about measuring things. It’s very important but it’s very dry.

I can’t even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It’s not about the musical ideas – the sound itself is toxic. It’s like eating plastic broccoli.

Time itself is everything.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this...

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.

The farmer doesn’t care for the pitchers’ battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.