Do not consider Collectivists as sincere but deluded idealists. The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not idealistic, no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to do good by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupi...
AYN RAND

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust n...
AYN RAND If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, an...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

It is not in the power of the devil to do so much harm, as God can do good; nay, we may be bold to s...
JOHN DONNE

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA

Persons of demonic nature do not know what to do and what not to do. They neither have purity nor go...
BHAGAVAD GITA

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY

I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... College is neither good for its own sake nor necessary . . . and that will not be the topic of my pe...
NATASHA VANDERLINDEN

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desir...
MENCIUS

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES

Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT All the normal people of the ages and generations that contribute to helping and doing their bit for...
GARY F EVANS... IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM It doesn’t always feel right when we do what is right.
TERENCE T. GORSKI

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE

An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims...
AYN RAND Just because one bad apple is rotten it shouldn't or doesn't mean that the rest of the crate is too....
GARY F EVANS...

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither me...
DIRK BENEDICT

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in r...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
DEMOCRITUS

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH We're not as good as we're going to be, but we saw some things that give us an idea of what we might...
DAN ROHRS

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ide...
JOHN BATES CLARK

Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to u...
JOHN TILLOTSON

Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do ...
RAMAKRISHNA Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but wha...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

for the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the...
JAMES ALLEN The ones that I do make mistakes, they are not as bad as the bad ones I used to do, so my bad is not...
VIJAY SINGH Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO

When you are not sure what to do, take action. You will quickly find out.
JEFFREY FRY

I don’t hesitate to say that damage or destruction of the land-community is morally wrong, just as...
WENDELL BERRY

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better
BENITO MUSSOLINI

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you m...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, g...
GEORGE SAVILE If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistenc...
MICHAEL KEATON There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA When going on the journey of life we should always put caution to the wind and have strength in ever...
GARY F EVANS... To have the strength to go and fulfil your hopes and dreams is an aim worth your while indeed, but i...
GARY F EVANS... Man does not fight because he has arms. He has arms because he fights
UNKNOWN The worst type of failure is that you do not even try at all.
ZENG HAN JUN If we tempt fate we can go over like a roller coaster coming to the end of its tracks.Fate has its o...
GARY F EVANS... Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK Power is the ability to do good things for others.
BROOKE ASTOR Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f...
JAMES BURTSCHAELL Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT 1. Accept everything just the way it is.
2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
3. Do n...
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.
ERIN HUNTER We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER The way to make a difference in others life is to say only what they can’t; but to make it really ...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...
JOHN STUART MILL The real loser is someone who tries nothing and does nothing
SOTONYE ANGA Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Don't be afraid of NOT being good enough in the eyes of others but whatever you do, do it to the bes...
JANA K ALEXANDER 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
SIMON WIESENTHAL Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, b...
ARTHUR KEITH Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. ...
NAOMI WOLF Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our m...
SHARON KAY PENMAN It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
BENITO MUSSOLINI There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a cri...
AYN RAND You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POW...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...
CLARENCE DARROW I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...
CLARENCE DARROW I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...
CLARENCE DARROW The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for ...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People c...
TOBA BETA Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you a...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what ...
CRISS JAMI

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I know what happiness is possible to me ...
AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be...
AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ...
AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l...
AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ...
AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagr...
AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's...
AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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