Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
AYN RANDCapitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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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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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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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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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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