Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
View quotes by Ralph EllisonMy subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity.
View quotes by Wilfred OwenNever feel
self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
View quotes by Millicent FenwickSelf-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
View quotes by John GardnerSelf-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
View quotes by Andre MauroisAh, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity
View quotes by Alexander MaclarenHonesty is as rare as a man without
self-pity.
View quotes by Stephen Vincent BenetThe ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward DahlbergCompassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold ToynbeeThe system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F SchumacherWhat a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
View quotes by Margot AsquithHatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
View quotes by Honore De BalzacI hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
View quotes by Anita RoddickPity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
View quotes by Don MarquisIt was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
View quotes by W Somerset MaughamI never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
View quotes by William Makepeace ThackerayPity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
View quotes by Richard Brinsley SheridanOld hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
View quotes by André GideSuffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
View quotes by Anatole FranceMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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