The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
AYN RANDThe essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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