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.
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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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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