Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.