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" Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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). "

" Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. "

" 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. "

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

" Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. "

" A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. "

" The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. "

" The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. "

" 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 disarmed victims. "

" 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 process of setting man free from men. "

" 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. "

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

" Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. "

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

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

" 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. "

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