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- Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
- Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody…
- Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from…
- Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a…
- 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…
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men…
- The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving…
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only…
- The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.…
- In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure…
- What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray…
- I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for…
- It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
- Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with…
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function…
- Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person,…
- 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.
- Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the…
- Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one…
- To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict…
- Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is…
- People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one…
- To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
- The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the…
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