Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
AYN RAND
AYN RAND
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
Ayn RandAyn Rand She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
Ayn RandAyn Rand To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
Ayn RandAyn Rand I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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