Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDWhat is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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