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| There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. |
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| There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob |
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| There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. |
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| They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his "minimum sustenance" his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom? |
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| Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. |
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| To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. |
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| To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight |
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| Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom |
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| Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. |
| Future; Past |
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| We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it |
| Humanity |
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| 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. |
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| We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality |
| Realism |
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| Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. |
| Wealth |
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| What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. |
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| When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. |
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| When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit. |
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| 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. |
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| When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice |
| Choice; Judgement |
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| Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. |
| Action; Courage |
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