Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
AYN RANDPeople create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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 creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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