“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.”

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.

You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

It is a voice that cuts you like a razor, but you can still hear the innocence in it, a claim to purity that soars out of the garbage of her throat, carrying evil harmonies.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid’, the king explained, ‘I have decided to hedge my bets’.

Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included.