Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
AYN RANDDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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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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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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