The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
AYN RANDIf a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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