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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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