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To: denizen48 who wrote (1431084)	1/1/2024 1:09:05 AM
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A Russian is a Russian is a Russian, it does not matter if he labels himself Marxist, Communist, Capitalist or Catholic. To be a top-monkey you must beat your chest louder than the other monkeys and be prepared to kill anyone that gets in your way. As for Rand she left Russia learned English as a second language and became a best selling author in that second language. How often has that ever happened? Anything you think you could dish out on Rand to denigrate her simply makes you look like a fool. “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.” Ayn Rand “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.” Ayn Rand "The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures. The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill." Ayn Rand “It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear.” Ayn Rand "If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it...The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." GK Chesterton "Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." G.K. Chesterton "Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's." G.K. Chesterton “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” G.K. Chesterton “The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.” Ayn Rand “Hey, hey, hey, that's what I say...” Keith Richards / Michael Jagger