What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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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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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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