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- God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
- Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
- Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no…
- Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold…
- Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
- You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're…
- Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity…
- Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire…
- Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
- The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died…
- Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.
- Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the…
- Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men…
- Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
- Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!
- Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do…
- She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell…
- I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even…
- People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering…
- Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time…
- You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
- At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.…
- I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour