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The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

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Man is an end in himself.

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Charity must be voluntary.

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Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is...more

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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own exis...more

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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means ...more

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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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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality i...more

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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be...more

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Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

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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 ...more

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He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There w...more

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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may ...more