If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
AYN RANDYou can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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