Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDMan cannot survive except through his mind.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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 difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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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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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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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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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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