I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDInflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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