Christ Quote by Andre Malraux

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Robespierre was unmoved by the mayhem he unleashed. “Terror is nothing other than prompt, severe, inflexible justice” he once declared.”

— David S. Kidder

“An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices…

— Ayn Rand

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is…

— Russell Kirk

“The idea of a specifically Robespierrist terror was a myth, invented by the Termidoreans, the men who overthrew Robespierre, who themselves were very much…

— Marisa Linton

'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of…

— Emma Goldman

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering,…

— Ayn Rand

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as…

— Ayn Rand

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

— Georges Bataille

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all…

— Herman Melville

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

— John Calvin