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Earth Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
- If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.
- It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.
- Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
- Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as…
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function…
- The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here…
- And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner.…
- Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had…
- Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So…
- And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot…
- I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust…
- She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one…
- Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;…
- Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light,…
- 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.…
- And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came…
- Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not…
- The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his…
- I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They…
- For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann