Ayn Rand on crack
Ayn Rand106 quotes“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.”
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Ayn RandAyn Rand I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
Ayn RandAyn Rand To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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 haven’t broken me, You’ve only cracked open my out shell and I thank you for releasing the warrior from within.
TMCTMC She cannot Conquer your demons. But she can be the guiding light, which shines through the cracks of the darkest corners of your heart to blind them.
Daniela SenickDaniela Senick Made up of water, made up of fire too Cracking and burning, pouring it out to you.
Sayed AbbasSayed Abbas Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce LeeBruce Lee I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Be like water making its way through cracks.
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