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Unblessed with beauty as he was, he thought that youth was the only thing in the world worth having and that one who had lost youth was already dead.
“Socialism is the expression of the principle of violence crying from the workers' soul, just as Imperialism is the principle of violence speaking from the soul of the official and the soldier.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.”
― Omnipotent Government
― Omnipotent Government
“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
"Yes."
"It's sort of what we have instead of God.”
― The Sun Also Rises
"Yes."
"It's sort of what we have instead of God.”
― The Sun Also Rises
“It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing 'compassion' for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.”
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