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" A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. "

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" Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. "

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

" There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. "

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

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

" Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. "

" The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. "

" The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. "

" 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). "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. "

" 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. "

" Evil requires the sanction of the victim. "

" Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. "

" Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. "

" Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. "

" Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. "

" So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? "

" The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. "

" Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. "

" I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. "

" Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. "

" Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. "

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

" Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. "