Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Max Cleland

He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have.

John Gibbons

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Steve Erickson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Jeffrey Jones

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Daniel Handler

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.