Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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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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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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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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