The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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