Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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