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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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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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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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When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

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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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Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree o...more

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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act a...more

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When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights...more