"A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Society Quotes #Strive Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.”

Source : Ki Longfellow (2007). “The Secret Magdalene: A Novel”, p.404, Crown
“Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.”
“Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.”
“I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short”
“If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.”
“How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.”
“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.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin
“I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.”

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