| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Altruism | Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpertrated by disciples of altruism?
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| dictatorial power | Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.
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| Government | A society without an organized government would be at the mercy of the first criminal who came along and who would precipitate it into the chaos of gang warfare.
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| Inflation | Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
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| Nature | Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
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| Wealth | Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
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| Work ethics | If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.
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