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Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go  (Ayn Rand Quotes) An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself  (Ayn Rand Quotes) I’m working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel  (Ayn Rand Quotes) I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy  (Ayn Rand Quotes) We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody  (Ayn Rand Quotes) All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell  (Ayn Rand Quotes) I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it’s safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form  (Ayn Rand Quotes) To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be  (Ayn Rand Quotes) If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive  (Ayn Rand Quotes) And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldnt it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men  (Ayn Rand Quotes) I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself  (Ayn Rand Quotes) To know one’s own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom  (Ayn Rand Quotes) The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another  (Ayn Rand Quotes) What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue  (Ayn Rand Quotes) To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men  (Ayn Rand Quotes) This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel  (Ayn Rand Quotes) Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth  (Ayn Rand Quotes) All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal  (Ayn Rand Quotes) When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it’s his thinking that you want him to suspend  (Ayn Rand Quotes)
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