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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular s...more

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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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While a creator does and must worship Man (which means his own highest potentiality; which is his natural self-reverence), he must not make the mistak...more

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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarme...more

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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

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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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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domesti...more

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It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointle...more

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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.

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To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

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To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact tha...more

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Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—n...more

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by...more