Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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