Act Against Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
— Ayn Rand
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy…
— John F. Kennedy
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To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to…
— Ayn Rand
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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a…
— Gore Vidal
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
— Ayn Rand
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When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
— Ayn Rand
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There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the…
— Marek Belka
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Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
— Gene Sharp
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If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
— James Oglethorpe
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Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do…
— Artur Phleps
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One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the…
— John Michael Greer
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An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.
— James Otis
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The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times…
— Howard Thurman
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
— Ayn Rand
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Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ.…
— R C Sproul
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A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and…
— Henci Goer
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