The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
AYN RANDLove is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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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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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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