Posted on 06/28/2021 9:18:17 PM PDT by libertasbella
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“A man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.” – Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” – Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love – because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone” – Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as ‘the right to enslave.’” – Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader – not as a looter; as a producer – not as a Attila.” – Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
“[T]he doctrine of ‘social responsibility’ involves the acceptance of the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.” – Milton Friedman, A Friedman doctrine – The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
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Stickup man, after long pause:
Look, bud, I said ‘Your money or your life.’
Jack Benny:
I’m thinking, I’m thinking!
An extremely wealthy man was asked in regard to money: “How much was enough?” The rich man thought for a minute and replied: “Just a little bit more.”
Money is freedom, that’s why the DemoMarxists are so against Capitalism.
I agree with all of them.
Another word for greed is self-interest, and there is no one on earth whose decisions and actions are not to advance his self interests as he sees it.
Greed definition, excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions. There is nothing wrong with This simple definition . When those pursuing such riches hurt other people is when such actions become vices.
My “better word” is Ambiotion. Ambition is Good
I would have loved to hear Ricardo Montalban perform Francisco’s Dollar Speech.
How is that liberty thing working for you on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and other privately owned platforms?
I forgot about this one. Might have to add it later.
Liberty has many enemies, many of which are privately owned and subjected to Senate hearings.
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