There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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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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 culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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