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Body Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.
- A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall,…
- Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
- Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter…
- Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to…
- And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted…
- I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is…
- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
- Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at…
- I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. I breathe for my own necessity,…
- Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted;…
- Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the…
- We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must…
- She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine