Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDIt is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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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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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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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 the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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