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…

Quote by Ayn Rand

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From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper,...

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper,...

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly...

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly...

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,...

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,...

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with...

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with...

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not...

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not...

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its...

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its...

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government...

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government...

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,...

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,...

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to...

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to...

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which...

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which...

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's...

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's...

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop...

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop...

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.