"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"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."

Rand, Ayn on country
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"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

Beecher, Henry Ward on law and lawyers
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"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."

Stirner, Max on law and lawyers
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it."

Gracian, Baltasar on evil   

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"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."

Brodsky, Joseph on evil
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"Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls."

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti on evil   

"Of two evils, choose neither."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on evil
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"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."

Addison, Joseph on family
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"In a broken nest there are few whole eggs."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Durant, William J. on family
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"Family is the most important thing in the world."

Diana, Princess of Wales on family
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink."

Mises, Ludwig Von on inflation   

"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."

Ringer, Robert J. on inflation
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"Inflation is determined by money supply growth."

Bootle, Roger on inflation   

"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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on truth
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on faces   

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

Allen, James on work
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"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence."

Butler, Samuel on vice
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"I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices."

Twain, Mark on vice
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"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."

Mill, John Stuart on eccentricity
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"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul"

Bible on soul
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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."

Cohen, Leonard on despair   

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy."

Wordsworth, William on childhood   

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on growth
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Abbey, Edward on patriotism
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Jefferson, Thomas on attitude
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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on rebellion
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"Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy."

Jefferson, Thomas on travel
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"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead..."

Jefferson, Thomas on truth
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

Jefferson, Thomas on conquest
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"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Jefferson, Thomas on control
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