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- The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
- 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…
- Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep…
- The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
- 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…
- "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…
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the…
- Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he…
- Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
- I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give…
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the…
- 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…
- The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it…
- The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to…
- All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to…
- She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that…
- The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high…
- Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of…
- A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
- 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…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
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- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
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- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen