Thinking

When someone would rather that you didn’t think too deeply, beware. There’s something wrong somewhere.

Source: Anthony Bari (Fictional Criminal Attorney)
Taken from: A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, by Paul Rosenberg 2002

Definition: Axiom

An axiom is a statement that identifies the base of knowledge and of any further statement pertaining to that knowledge, a statement necessarily contained in all others, whether any particular speaker chooses to identify it or not. An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it.

Source:  John Galt (Fictional Character)
Taken From:  Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957)

The Unseen

Politicians love to talk about how many policemen or school lunches they are paying for, but they never tell you that they first took that money from the nice man who owns the hardware store on the corner. And that now he won’t be able to take his kids to see their aged relatives in India.

Source:  James Farber, Fictional Investment Banker
Taken from: A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, by Paul Rosenberg 2002

Pity

Name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity:
"The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon."

Source:  Midas (Michael) Mulligan (Fictional Character)
Taken From:  Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Justice and Trepidation

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever . . ." 

Source: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia1781-1782
Taken From:  Chris Manion, LRC Blog 4/18/2011

Adjusting Ones Morals

I do not adjust the morals of anyone but myself.

William Volker (d 1947)
Source:  "Mr. Anonymous" The Story of William Volker by Herbert C. Cornuelle (1951)