"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."

-- Ayn Rand

#Philosophy Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Long Quotes

“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”

Source : Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.26, University of Chicago Press
“You like? You are happy? Yes? Okay, go! Go in the street.”
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.”
“In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”
“The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.”
“Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.”
“The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to.”
“People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.”

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