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Thus Quotes by Ayn Rand
- 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…
- 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…
- There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
- 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…
- [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of…
- America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry
- It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. — Pierre Bayle
- The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' — Ludwig van Beethoven
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI