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Merely Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes…
- There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,…
- Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think…
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is…
- I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of life…
- Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be…
- The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than…
- It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
- A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of…
- A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual…
- Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-…
- Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly.…
More Merely Quotes
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted… — Lucille Ball
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler