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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cowardice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Nov 07, 2020
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 process of setting man free from men.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
- Avoiding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disarmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 disarmed victims.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020