The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
AYN RANDIt is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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