You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDJoy 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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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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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 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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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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