"The men who are not interested in philosophy……" — Ayn Rand
"The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power."
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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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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to…
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
— Virginia Woolf
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to…
— John Berger
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center…
— Edward Hirsch
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We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give…
— Kathryn Harrison
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for…
— Laura Marling
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In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a…
— Michael McCaul
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for…
— Gautama Buddha
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
— Leonard Peikoff
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In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend…
— Massad Ayoob
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
— Simon Schama
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
— Fay Weldon
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