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.
AYN RANDIf one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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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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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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