The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RANDThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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