Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
AYN RANDMan 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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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