Murray Rothbard Quotes

Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or 'States,' which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals.

Murray Rothbard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1926 - January 7, 1995

Topics

PlaceActThingsTakeOnlyActions

I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

Jim Parrack

HelpLookDreamActingKnowNothing

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Jerry Stiller

SadYouthYouLookPicturesYour

In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

Melanne Verveer

WomenCommunityMenDoingYoungWay

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

SuccessFailureComplacencySurvive

I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

Simon McBurney

CreativityPeopleYouCreateMessy

The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as 'nativist' the advocacy of barring of Islamist radicals from legal entry into the United States.

Tom Tancredo

LegalPoliticalMediaQuickAdvocacy

My freshman year of high school, I started wrestling, and I ended up loving it more than anything I'd ever done.

Miesha Tate

SchoolHigh SchoolYearLovingDone

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.

Dionne Warwick

TimePeopleFeelProblemYouLose

I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.

Dianne Reeves

LifeMusicMy LifePianoWhoMuch

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

Clare Balding

ChildrenThreeRunTwoOutRoom

I think, for the benefit of our parents, the perfect night out would be when Cate and I touch the wall and we tie. This is what they dream - that we'll both win. Because then they don't have to pick a favourite child.

Bronte Campbell

ChildParentsWinNightThinkWall

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

Sheena Easton

TimeComebackUpDisappointedHere

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