The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RANDWhoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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