"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."

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Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin

Ayn Rand

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“Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough.”

Source : "Amanda Bynes goes after Rihanna, tweets ‘Chris Brown beat you because you’re not pretty enough’" by David K. Li, nypost.com. May 26, 2013.
“It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.”
“Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may learn from his example to be meek and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interests but those of God.”
“Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.”
“When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.”
“I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.”
“Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.”

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