Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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