"Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to……" — Ayn Rand
"Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t."
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838 Quotes by Ayn Rand
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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept…
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale…
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One…
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More Abrogate Quotes
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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is…
— Densey Clyne
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President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the…
— Jerome Corsi
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Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse…
— Frederick Lenz
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God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
— Algernon Sidney
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The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied…
— Hugo Black
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Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on,…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.
— John Gresham Machen
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On love: I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that…
— Harlan Ellison
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I will not stand idly by while you abrogate my plans! You shall rue this day!... Well, go on, start…
— Family Guy
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