The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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