Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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 basic need of the creator is independence.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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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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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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