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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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When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any v...more

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Man is an end in himself.

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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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And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important... What sex should involve is a...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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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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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for t...more

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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 into being, this god who will grant t...more

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I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the re...more

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Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless...more

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There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.

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