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 RANDAn 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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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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