The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
AYN RANDFreedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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