Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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