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 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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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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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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