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Deal Quotes by Ayn Rand
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
- There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot…
- In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their…
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
- The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than…
- Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to…
- Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape…
- Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the…
- In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to…
- In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
- 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. So…
- So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a…
- Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-…
- I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They…
- Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency…
- We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must…
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