Today Quotes
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If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.Henry David Thoreau
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.Henry Thoreau
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.Clive Lewis
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.Adam Smith
The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.Adam Smith