To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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