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.
AYN RANDThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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