The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDThere 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 created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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 problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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