“Property Minus Usury” – Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Civilization and Privacy – Ayn Rand Quote
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Ayn Rand
“Courage Is Not Simply One of the Virtues” – C. S. Lewis
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C. S. Lewis
Change and Identity – Quote by Neale Donald Walsch
“Seek to create change in your life not because something is ‘wrong’ ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of ‘who you are’.”
Neale Donald Walsch
Erich Fromm on Maternal Love and Independence
“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”
Erich Fromm
Morality and Enjoying Life – Quote by Ayn Rand
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Ayn Rand
“A Ton of Prayer” – Quote by Edwin Louis Cole
“A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.”
Edwin Louis Cole
“All Pleasures Are Substitutes for Joy” – C. S. Lewis
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”
C. S. Lewis
Ayn Rand on Humanity, Environment and Adaptation
“Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.”
Ayn Rand
“Defiance, not obedience” – Quote by Ayn Rand
“Defiance, not obedience, is the American’s answer to overbearing authority.”
Ayn Rand