The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
AYN RANDA 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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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.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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