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Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.



Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.



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.



The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.



Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.



What do you know and how do you know it



Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.



The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.



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



Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom



Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.



Evil requires the sanction of the victim.



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.



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



When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.








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