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.
AYN RANDReality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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