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The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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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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There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that enemies could murder him at any moment and had to...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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Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of ...more

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She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus b...more

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The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.

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...one cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification.

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It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone’s will; it was his moral purit...more

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There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough crimina...more

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Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on t...more

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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliteration of reason;psychologically, it is theerosion of...more

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I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend o...more

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He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was hea...more