Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

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.

Cesar Chavez

If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.

Cesar Chavez

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

Dana Milbank

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

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?

Edmund Burke

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Author unknown

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Brigitte Bardot

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Edgar Allan Poe

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Edward Abbey

Women who love only women may have a good point.

Edward Abbey

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Stephen Greenblatt

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Viktor E. Frankl

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

John Milton

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Michel de Montaigne

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Alfredo Griffin

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.