National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. Richard Perle
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness. Wilhelm von Humboldt
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. Kenneth Lee Pike
A masquerade does not perform to an outside audience until he performs well at the home base. Nigerian Proverb
Charms do not perform miracles on the shelf; they perform for those who are brave. Nigerian Proverb