Marcus Garvey Quotes

Every man is his own chief enemy.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.