Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDThe smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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