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.
AYN RANDDevotion 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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