 Seven times have I despised my soul: The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height. The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled. The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy. The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong. The fifth time when she forbore for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength. The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.
Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam
He brings disaster upon his nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation.
Kahlil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.
Kahlil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
Some hear with their ears, some with their stomachs, some with their pockets, and some hear not at all.
Kahlil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
Don't pass judgement (about private conduct) unless you know something is improper, and so don't wish to deal with the person. If you are not personally involved, don't pass judgement.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Answers, p. 138.
Don, get a clue. Rand chose the dollar sign as her personal symbol. It's Objectivism's cross, its crescent, its star of David. If the dollar sign doesn't represent materialism, nothing does.
Dan Flynn
Flynnfiles.com
The morality of sacrifice lives on borrowed time.
Andrew Bernstein
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4433
Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement.
Ayn Rand
The Objectivist: September 1971
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson, speaking to the House of Lords last month in opposition to the Blair government's Racial and Religious Hatred Bill.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
There, where the state ends - there only begins the man who is not superfluous: there begins the song of the necessary man, the unique and irreplaceable melody.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Just for the record, WMD was never my rationale. As I've said on many occasions, when it comes to toppling dictators, there's no such thing as an "illegitimate" rationale. In his obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors, Saddam certainly acted as if he had WMD and, in his "trade" missions to Niger (principal exports: uranium, goats, cowpeas, and onions), as if he were eager to acquire more. There's something to be said for taking a chap at his word.
Mark Steyn
http://www.nationalreview.com/issue/steyn200511070904.asp
I sing from the heart... I sing the words of a song and really feel them, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes... I sing as though my life depends on it, and if I ever stop doing that then I'll stop living
Mario Lanza
The only two things a pirate will run for is money and public office.
Yosemite Sam
I'm passionately involved in life - to be alive, to have music, to walk, to see - it's all a miracle. Music is not a hobby not even a passion. Music is me.
Arthur Rubenstein
Pianist
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
Robert McCracken
Investor Words Quote of the Day http://www.investorwords.com
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1742
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West
Ross' Big Book of Bad Boy Quotes
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
David Attenborough
The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 November
Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun.
Bruce Campbell
Army of Darkness
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1748
"Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislation as an agent in human advancement has been much over estimated. No Laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober".
Samuel Smiles
Self Help
The Soviet Union suddenly collapsed in 1989, when owing to the inability of communism to create wealth, the state went bankrupt, was unable to maintain its army and hold its empire together. In France, the same thing might be happening.
Paul Belien
"France's Toll of Destruction, Brussels Journal, November 18, 2005
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.
Ayn Rand
The reciprocal relationship of epistemology and science is of noteworthy kind. They are dependent upon each other. Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is—insofar as it is thinkable at all—primitive and muddled.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Ayn Rand
GS, FNI, 157 – ARL p 158
Christ, in terms of the Christian philosophy, is the human ideal. He personifies that which men should strive to emulate. Yet, according to the Christian mythology, he died on the cross not for his own sins but for the sins of the non-ideal people. In other words, a man of perfect virtue was sacrificed for men who are vicious and who are expected or supposed to accept that sacrifice. If I were a Christian, nothing would make me more indignant than that: the notion of sacrificing the ideal to the non-ideal, or virtue to vice. And it is in the name of that symbol that men are asked to sacrifice themselves for their inferiors. That is precisely how the symbolism is used.
Ayn Rand
“Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand,” – ARL p 411
Insane? HA! That's so easy so convienient and so WRONG. Crazy people push shopping carts down streets and talk nonsense. Crazy people sit in padded cells and soil their pants. A madwoman couldn't have pulled this off. No. There's a word for what I am but nobody uses it anymore. Nobody wants to see the simple truth. If they did they'd kill people like me as soon as we revealed ourselves. But they don't. They blather about psychology and say nobody is truly EVIL. That's why I've won. That's why I always win.
Frank Miller
The character Ava--Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
He brings disaster upon his nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation.
Kahil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUE CARD NO.: 62-19768
When I wrote on my door: "Leave your traditions outside, Before you come in," Not a soul dared To visit me or open my door.
Kahil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran - Lib of Congress catalogue card no.: 62-19768
It's the perfect solution to the "Middle East peace process": out of sight, out of mind. And given that Ahmadinejad's out of his mind, we're already halfway there.
Mark Steyn
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn11.html
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Benjamin Franklin
Investor Words Quote of the Day -- http://www.investorwords.com
Such is the basic contradiction---and the terrible parasitic immorality---of any attempt to "tongue-in-cheek" thrillers. It requires that one employ all the values of a thriller in order to hold the audience's interest, yet turn these values against themselves, that one damage the very elements one is using and counting on. It means an attempt to cash in on the thing one is mocking, to profit by the audience's hunger for Romanticism while seeking to destroy it. This is not the method of a legitimate satire: satire does not share the values of that which it denounces; it denounces by means and context of an opposite set of values.
Ayn Rand
Bootleg Romanticism: The Romantic Manifesto
In the search for companies to acquire, we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: it pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Warren Buffett
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Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it.
Ludwig von Mises
Bureaucracy
Most governments have historically been giant schemes of organized crime, in which a small class of politically connected individuals uses their coercive power to fleece everyone else.
Robert Tracinski
The Intellectual Activist Daily, December 22, 2005
What's invalid is invalid. It's generally not a point of discussion except for those who insist on claiming that they have unprovable beliefs. Reality invalidates the arbitrary and the non-existant. ... not me.
Ethan Dawe
In response to a Religionist, on the "Forty-Two Will Do" thread.
Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it.
William Penn Patrick
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What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Anna Pavlova
Collaboration of the more talented, more able, and more industrious with the less talented, less able, and less industrious results in benefit for both. The gains derived from the division of labor are always mutual.
Ludwig von Mises
Human Action
Every immigrant makes America more American.
Ronald Reagan
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
Of course I'm a sexist. Any time a man says anything negative about a woman he's automatically a sexist. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. That never even enters the equation.
Jeff Wayne
It's OK To Be a White Male Comedy CD
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
The Free Dictionary - Quotation of the Day
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Japanese Proverb
deru kugi wa utareru
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Ayn Rand
Opening paragraph of the personal statements by a Ph.D. student applicant
Thomas Edison did more for civilization than all the gurus and all the world's religions.
Steve Jobs
LA Times: Walt's Shoes at Disney Could Be a Fit for Jobs
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