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.
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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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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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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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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