It's dangerous to assert oneself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

We need to come out and assert ourselves on both sides of the court.

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse than hating anyone else.

Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and assert your authority.

It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse.

We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia, and I have done that.

It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way and for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power over truth itself.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.

I was able to tour successfully and attract a fairly wide audience, but it was hard to assert myself as a stand-up because people were more familiar with me as a TV character.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

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