The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
AYN RANDI 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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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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