The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDMen who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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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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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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