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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…
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
- Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for…
- 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…
- Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without…
- 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…
- I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their…
- Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and…
- I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- 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…
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
- If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in…
- If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only…
- There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their…
- If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is…
- If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts…
- Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with…
- The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve,…
- Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!
- That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who…
- But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn…
- Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
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- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
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