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- 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…
- Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish…
- An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
- One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable…
- The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
- There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot…
- In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their…
- "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange…
- One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate…
- You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.
- Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by…
- We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle…
- 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…
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
- To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.
- The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.
- I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes…
- Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and…
- It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.
- This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
- To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.
- The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep…
- If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania…
- If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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