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.
AYN RANDTo sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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