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- The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is…
- Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality…
- An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be…
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any…
- Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
- The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United…
- You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
- 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…
- Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody…
- The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died…
- The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they…
- I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for…
- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man…
- Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
- There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.…
- Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to…
- If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
- 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…
- 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 shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love…
- 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…
- When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty…
- I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as…
- I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy.…
- I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
More Nor Quotes
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson