Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Let 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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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A 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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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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 smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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