"Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church."

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Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

William Ames

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“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.”

Source : Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin
“When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.”
“There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along....”
“The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.”

Source : "The Black Room". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 108, 1971.
“If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved”
“It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.”
“And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.”
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

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