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.
AYN RANDThe problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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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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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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