The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
AYN RANDDo not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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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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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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