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Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of hi...more

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Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...more

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by...more

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Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry t...more

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Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature t...more

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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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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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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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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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There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socia...more