Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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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 basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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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 man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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