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Causes Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania…
- The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
- If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in…
- Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng…
- The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They…
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy…
- A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may…
- A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
- The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.
More Causes Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet