- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15701/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15701/ <![CDATA[It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15876/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15876/ <![CDATA[Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15681/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15681/ <![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15694/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15694/ <![CDATA[History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15705/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15705/ <![CDATA[Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15755/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15755/ <![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15763/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15763/ <![CDATA[Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15772/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15772/ <![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15869/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15869/ <![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15835/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15835/ <![CDATA[He who is brave is free.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15854/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15854/ <![CDATA[The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22705/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22705/ <![CDATA[The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22578/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22578/ <![CDATA[There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32517/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/32517/ <![CDATA[Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40822/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40822/ <![CDATA[The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. The believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8621/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8621/ <![CDATA[A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19647/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19647/ <![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2657/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2657/ <![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23603/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23603/ <![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27614/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27614/ <![CDATA[The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41022/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41022/ <![CDATA[Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35157/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35157/ <![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33870/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33870/ <![CDATA[Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28806/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28806/ <![CDATA[The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22712/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22712/ <![CDATA[Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22572/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22572/ <![CDATA[Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12838/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12838/ <![CDATA[The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12815/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12815/ <![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12817/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12817/ <![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12858/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12858/ <![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12878/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12878/ <![CDATA[Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14230/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14230/ <![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14308/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14308/ <![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14262/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14262/ <![CDATA[Family is the most important thing in the world.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14260/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14260/ <![CDATA[There is no education like adversity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11885/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11885/ <![CDATA[Inflation is determined by money supply growth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20869/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20869/ <![CDATA[Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20880/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20880/ <![CDATA[Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20884/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20884/ <![CDATA[Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39971/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39971/