![It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-childbearing-was-never-intended-to-be-as-time-consuming-and-self-conscious-a.jpg)
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self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self grace denial
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. Richard Baxter
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
self long age
Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now. Russell Hoban
self ideas people
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
evil deeds stills
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
evil consciousness
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. Samuel Johnson
evil grows concealment
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. Virgil
evil mind trying
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Vincent Van Gogh
evil imperfection judgment
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. Wayne Dyer
evil selfishness persecution
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. William Blake
evil-love evil paradise
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wallace Stegner
evil use done
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.
our-society
Everything in our society is so purposeful. Sara Blakely
our-society biographies written
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially. Kitty Kelley
our-society skirts losing
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. Shirley Chisholm
our-society knows
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. Edwin Land
our-society reason lost
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. Timothy Radcliffe
our-society realizing being-human
Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of. Vidal Sassoon
our-society way needs
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways. Rollo May
our-society injustice awareness
Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head. Serj Tankian
our-society employee
Our society has become an employee society. Peter Drucker