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.
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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek 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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