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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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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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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