Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
AYN RANDPolitically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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