![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 self-destruction destruction
destruction is ultimately self-destruction. Anais Nin
self world monsters
Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self people transformation
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. Susan Sontag
self might pay
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business. Roger Rosenblatt
self monsters persons
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
self comforting deception
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves. Russ Roberts
self people inspire
Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. Rush Limbaugh
self imagination long
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination. Thomas Merton
evil
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life Albert Schweitzer
evil good men needed prosper
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
evil feelings use
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good. Adam Hamilton
evil indifference silent
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. Abraham Joshua Heschel
evil suffering limits
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
evil outcomes evidence
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market. Ludwig von Mises
evil giving
Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
evil deeds ill
Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare
evil fight greatest minute oneself until worse
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself Patrick McGoohan