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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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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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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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