Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
AYN RANDAn honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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 worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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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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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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