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- It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'…
- 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…
- 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…
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual…
- It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and…
- 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…
- All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
- Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should…
- Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
- No man can use his brain to think for another.
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only…
- What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising…
- There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any…
- Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed…
- I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a…
- I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is…
- The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and…
- I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood