An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDWhoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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