Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin Luther

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

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

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine

Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus