The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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