The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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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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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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 man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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