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.
AYN RANDInflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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 am done with this creed of corruption.
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