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.
AYN RANDForce and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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 swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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