The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by 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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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