An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDA 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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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