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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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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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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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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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No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.

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Señor d.‘Anconia, what do you think is going to happen to the world?”“Just exactly what it deserves.”“Oh, how cruel!”“Don’t you believe in the operati...more

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...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.

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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 the rest of them can surviv...more