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.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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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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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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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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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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