An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDTo deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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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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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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