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" The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Evil requires the sanction of the victim. "

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

" Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. "

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

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

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

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

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

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