If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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