Top 1200 Self-Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.

We're concerned with a powerful government who is telling General Motors now, maybe, what they can charge for their automobiles. Indeed, if the government owns 61 percent, they can do that.

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

We've got the government shutdown, but the beginning of Obamacare. You know what that means? You can now complain to your doctor about the government making you sick.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

It is about that self-belief, that self-drive, that has got me to where I am now.

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I think the Scandinavian health systems are better when it comes to preventative care than the German system, because in the Scandinavian systems, the government is really more active in defining treatment, goals and defining health priorities. The German system is a competitive system with little government intervention. The price for this is that the government cannot set a health agenda. And the Scandinavian systems have little competition, so you often do have waiting lists. But on the other hand, you then have the government which can push for prevention.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services, or money from the government without earning them. The onlookers easily adopt an attitude that they, too, are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our government actually is inclined to particularly do.

I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to get people to come and manufacture in India.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

The people of Ontario have a right to know how their dollars are being spent. Ontario has the leanest government in Canada while still providing high-quality public services that people can rely on. Today, we are releasing the 2014 Public Sector Salary Disclosure list as part of our government's commitment to be the most open and transparent government in the country.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free enterprise generally outpaces the regress of government growth, for, if that were not the case, we would be poorer each year - not just in relative terms, but absolutely poorer too. The market is smart and the government is dumb, and to these attributes do we owe the whole of our economic well-being.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.