Quotations
"A large number of militant mystics disapprove of childless couples. 'People who do not want to have children,' they claim, 'are selfish.' This is true. Here the word selfish is used with the proper Objectivist meaning. It does not mean the conventional brute who sacrifices others to himself; it means the man of self-esteem who refuses to be a sacrificial animal and wants to live his own life for his own sake. When you bring children into the world, you sacrifice your own sovereignty and become a means to an end; the end, the primary concern of the children." —Ayn Rand
"If the act of procreation were neither the outcome of a desire nor accompanied by feelings of pleasure, but a matter to be decided on the basis of purely rational considerations, is it likely the human race would still exist? Would each of us not rather have felt so much pity for the coming generation as to prefer to spare it the burden of existence, or at least not wish to take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?" —Arthur Schopenhauer
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)