Madeline Brown > Madeline's Quotes

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
― Ayn Rand

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.”
― Thomas Fuller

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
― Ayn Rand

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”
― Ayn Rand

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.—Nietzsche.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
― Arthur Rubinstein

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity; and if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Winston Churchill

“The cost of freedom is always high, but people have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”
― Winston Churchill

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“#305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~”
― Janis Joplin

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand. —Milton Friedman”
― Vikram Mansharamani, Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst

“You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.”
― Banksy, Pictures of Walls

“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti