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 RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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