A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
AYN RANDA 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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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