Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul Tillich

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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

For also knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.
Eric Hoffer

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

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein

Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
Brett Favre

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein