"To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to……" — Ayn Rand
"To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims."
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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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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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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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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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More Abstain Quotes
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— Saint Augustine
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When you doubt, abstain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from…
— Carre Otis
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of…
— George Washington
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one…
— Ayn Rand
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no…
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for…
— Bridget of Sweden
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been…
— Henry David Thoreau
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