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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.

Ayn Rand

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Men Seek Truth
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Ability Business Ideas Integrity One Liner Stand
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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Failure Humanity Individual Live Possible Worship
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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Against Danger Force Government Legal Man Physical Rights Victim
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Compromise Frustration Fulfillemnt General Lead Satisfaction Try
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Capital Greedy One Liner System
Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Angry Honesty Man One Liner Truth
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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Argument Confession Intellectual Intimidate

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