Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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