Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Brandy Norwood

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Author unknown

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Robert Kiyosaki

You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

Robert Kiyosaki

What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Thomas Sowell

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Spider Robinson

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

Silvia Cartwright

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Shereen El Feki

Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Albert Einstein

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Nancy White

You do it as a team and it's not an individual sport. It's just a really wonderful new skill to have.

Theodor Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Jim Balsillie

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Khaya Ngqula

She is a talented individual and we wish her well in her new ventures.