Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
AYN RANDIf a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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 truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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