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 RANDLet me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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