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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. – Ayn Rand

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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the lepers bell of an approaching looter. – Ayn Rand

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Life
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand

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Men
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God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond mans power to conceive. – Ayn Rand

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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character – not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I dont think the political process could actually handle that. – J. C. Watts

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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich

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Society

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. – Karl Marx

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Society

I think we need to just be very clear about what were trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, were not trying to create the perfect democracy. Were never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. – David Cameron

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. – Heinrich Mann

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This womans place is in the House – the House of Representatives. – Bella Abzug

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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc

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