I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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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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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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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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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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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 basic need of the creator is independence.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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