The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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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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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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