Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
AYN RANDCompromise 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 government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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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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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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