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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Ayn Rand

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Disagree Learning Man Profit Rational Reality Win Wrong
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Attack Ideas Inspirational Justice Silence Value
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Abandonment Corruption Growth Politics Power
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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Evil Issue Justice Problem Right Wrong
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Come Criticism Discover Emptiness Freedom Ignorance Virtue
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Existence Men Reason Rejection Responsiblity Thinking
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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Achievement Character Love People Value Virtue
The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Deep Himself Man Self Respect Value
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Die Justice Kill One Liner Truth
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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Attraction Experience Himself Man Permit Self Esteem Sex Surrender Vision Woman
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Dominant Future Identify Philosophy Predict Society
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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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.
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