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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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Achievement Community Ending Except Murder Social Suicide Ultimate Vote
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Discriminate Opposite Same Tolerance Variant
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Difference Matter State Time Welfare
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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Ambition Dominant Goals Philosophy Politics Reason
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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History Progress
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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Achievement Culture Indifference Individual Intellectual Mass Men Product
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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Life Live Love Man Sake Swear
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Constitution Crime Man Protection
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Attempt Emotion Perceive Process Rational Reality
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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Effort Gang Individual Institution Product Society Speak Strict Togetherness Violence
Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Dependent Expectation Freedom Life Positive
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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Businessman Consequences Failure Force Lost Mistake Suffering
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Confess Happiness Naked Pain She Witness
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Characteristics Essential Individual Property Rights Social
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Acceptance I Love You Self Love
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Beauty Beyond Finding Impossible Possible Reach

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