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

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

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" Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "

" 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. "

" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "

" Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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 without breaking laws. "

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

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

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

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

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

" From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. "