The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDIf a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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 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.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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