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.
AYN RANDTo deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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.
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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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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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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.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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