If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
AYN RANDThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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