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- Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle…
- But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into…
- If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to…
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since…
- There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
- The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails…
- When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out…
- If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
- Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
- 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…
- Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to…
- The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the…
- She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell…
- Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;…
- 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-…
- Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What…
- And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came…
- 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…
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