Whenever anyone accuses some person of being ‘unfeeling,’ he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that ‘to feel’ is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality. … Well, observe that you never hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but always in defense of guilt. You never hear it said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you always hear it said by a rotter about those who treat him as a rotter, those who don’t feel any sympathy for the evil he’s committed or for the pain he suffers as a consequence. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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I don’t want to run the national economy! I want your …
I don’t want to run the national economy! I want your national economy runners to leave me alone! Ayn Rand
Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed …
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often,and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Rudyard Kipling
Without speculation there is no good and original observation. Charles Darwin Author …
Without speculation there is no good and original observation. Charles Darwin
Author of The Origin of Species (on Evolution) 1809-1882
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‘No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury […] nor shall any person be […] twice put in jeopardy of life […] nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’ United States Constituion’s Fifth Amendment
Run when you hear any of the following in a sentence: humanity, …
Run when you hear any of the following in a sentence: humanity, the human condition, the human spirit. Roger Rosenblatt
From Rules for Aging, reported in U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001
Oh yes, you can shout me down well enough, but you can’…
Oh yes, you can shout me down well enough, but you can’t refute me. The majority has the might–unhappily–but it lacks the *right*. The right is with me, and the other few, the solitary individuals. Henrik Ibsen
In ‘An Enemy of the People,’ character Dr. Thomas Stockmann Playwright: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
You cannot have a little bit of preferences any more than you …
You cannot have a little bit of preferences any more than you can have a little bit of pregnancy. … Once you have opened the flood-gates, the water goes where it will. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Economist and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, on affirmative action, Forbes, August 26, 1996
It is stupid to get into an argument with a fool because …
It is stupid to get into an argument with a fool because people won’ t know the difference. Rush Limbaugh
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so …
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong. F.A. Hayek
Nobel Prize Winner (1899-1992)