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 RANDI don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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