Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

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.

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.

Fernando Alonso

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Murray Rothbard

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray Rothbard

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Milton Friedman

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative