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- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
- No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
- The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
- My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of…
- Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the…
- 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…
- Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace…
- What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to…
- 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…
- There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.
- It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves…
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man…
- The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism,…
- One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible…
- Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
- Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to…
- If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
- Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape…
- I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the…
- Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles…
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best…
- Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster