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

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" A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. "

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

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

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

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

" 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). "

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

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

" 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. "

" Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. "

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

" Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Evil requires the sanction of the victim. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. "