🎅❄️ The Winter Sale 2023 🎄⛄

📅 21 December 2023 - 04 January 2024

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📘 Product has not been this cheap before | 📗 Product is priced on par with lowest recorded price

👁️ It may be cheaper in a Steam bundle | 🕶️ VR Supported/Only | 🔗 DLC or Season Pass

🎫 May contain an extra copy if you already own something | 💿 Software | 🔞 Adult only

Name Ratings Retail Price Current Price
Day 14
📗👁️ All-Star Fruit Racing 75% of 142 reviews $14.99 $1.49 / 1.47€
📗👁️ Xenon Racer 64% of 554 reviews $14.99 $1.49 / 1.47€
Day 12
📗 Angels with Scaly Wings / 鱗羽の天使 97% of 1,393 reviews $9.99 $2.99 / 2.99€
Day 11
📘👁️ White Shadows 76% of 313 reviews $19.99 $6.99 / 6.99€
Day 10
📘 Arcane Golf 100% of 41 reviews $2.99 $0.89 / 0.89€
📘 Area 86 77% of 22 reviews $9.99 $0.99 / 0.81€
📗👁️ Below The Ocean 100% of 66 reviews $5.99 $2.39 / 1.99€
👁️🔗 Capcom Arcade Stadium:Giga Wing (DLC) 80% of 10 reviews $1.99 $1.25 / 1.25€
📘🕶️ CarX Drift Racing Online - Complete 95% of 66,754 reviews $39.98 $10.48 / 10.31€
Castle In The Darkness 76% of 1,122 reviews $9.99 $1.99 / 1.99€
📘 Code of Princess EX 60% of 38 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.67€
📘 Critadel 82% of 180 reviews $19.99 $4.99 / 4.25€
📘 Dungeonoid 100% of 3 reviews $6.99 $3.49 / 2.84€
📘 F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch 89% of 5,322 reviews $29.99 $11.99 / 11.99€
📘 FINAL FANTASY IX 94% of 8,622 reviews $20.99 $8.39 / 8.39€
📗 Flipping Death 89% of 156 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.67€
Home is Where One Starts... 77% of 499 reviews $2.99 $0.59 / 0.59€
📘 Khimera: Puzzle Island 97% of 167 reviews $4.99 $0.49 / 0.49€
📗 Mostly Intense Monster Defense 92% of 39 reviews $4.99 $1.49 / 1.49€
📗 Niko: Through The Dream 72% of 172 reviews $9.99 $0.99 / 0.89€
📗👁️ Planet of the Eyes 90% of 144 reviews $9.79 $0.99 / 0.97€
📗👁️ planetarian HD 98% of 2,302 reviews $9.99 $2.99 / 2.99€
📗👁️ Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube 87% of 578 reviews $9.99 $0.99 / 0.99€
👁️ Suicide Guy 86% of 1,449 reviews $5.99 $0.71 / 0.70€
📗 Talented 95% of 220 reviews $1.99 $1.49 / 1.49€
📗 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley 97% of 11,118 reviews $9.99 $7.99 / 7.80€
📗👁️ The Vagrant 90% of 7,197 reviews $3.99 $0.79 / 0.79€
📘👁️ The Witness 85% of 13,125 reviews $39.99 $7.59 / 7.02€
📗 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 89% of 2,325 reviews $39.99 $15.99 / 17.99€
📗 Tzar: The Burden of the Crown 91% of 406 reviews $4.99 $1.24 / 1.24€
📗 Undertale 96% of 190,383 reviews $9.99 $2.99 / 2.99€
📗 Worlds 90% of 50 reviews $9.99 $0.99 / 0.99€
Day 8
📗👁️ Cursed Treasure 2 83% of 402 reviews $4.99 $0.99 / 0.99€
📘 FIGHT KNIGHT 93% of 951 reviews $19.99 $3.99 / 3.35€
OmniBus: Game of the Year Edition 79% of 421 reviews $4.99 $0.74 / 0.74€
📗 Sentry Knight Tactics 73% of 110 reviews $4.99 $0.74 / 0.74€
Day 7
📗👁️ Crysis Remastered 73% of 7,894 reviews $29.99 $10.49 / 10.49€
📗 RAID: World War II 56% of 1,828 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.99€
Day 6
📘👁️ Saints Row: The Third Remastered 66% of 2,108 reviews $29.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
Day 5
📘👁️🔗Automobilista 2 2020-2022 Season Pass (DLC) 97% of 40 reviews $99.99 $29.99 / 26.99€
📘👁️ ColdSide 79% of 379 reviews $7.99 $0.87 / 0.72€
📘👁️ Uninvited Guest 80% of 203 reviews $9.99 $0.99 / 0.81€
Day 3
📘 Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 86% of 1,210 reviews $14.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture 69% of 1,413 reviews $19.99 $7.99 / 7.99€
📘 Helmetman 87% of 91 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.95€
📘👁️ The Spike 92% of 1,878 reviews $4.99 $1.24 / 0.99€
Day 2
📗👁️ Aquarium Designer 87% of 770 reviews $9.99 $5.99 / 4.91€
📗👁️ Four Last Things 95% of 1,006 reviews $7.99 $1.99 / 1.87€
📗👁️ Laika 2.0 - Sekret Pravda 89% of 9 reviews $9.99 $0.99 / 0.99€
Day 1
📘 A Walk With Yiayia 97% of 47 reviews $12.79 $1.29 / 1.27€
📗 A Way Out 85% of 36,215 reviews $29.99 $4.49 / 4.49€
📗 Afterimage 81% of 3,378 reviews $24.99 $14.99 / 14.99€
📗 Alice: Madness Returns 88% of 12,928 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.99€
📗 Assassin's Creed Odyssey - Gold Edition 89% of 132,602 reviews $99.99 $19.99 / 19.99€
📘 ASTRO AQUA KITTY 90% of 55 reviews $14.99 $3.74 / 3.62€
📗 Audiosurf 2 82% of 5,154 reviews $14.79 $3.74 / 3.69€
📘 Baldur's Gate 3 96% of 451,880 reviews $59.99 $53.99 / 53.99€
📗 Battlefield V 70% of 156,399 reviews $49.99 $4.00 / 4.00€
📗 Before the Echo 89% of 1,016 reviews $3.99 $0.99 / 0.79€
📗👁️ Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2 96% of 513 reviews $6.89 $3.49 / 3.44€
📗👁️ CrossCode 93% of 13,146 reviews $19.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
👁️🔗 Cube Escape: Paradox - Chapter 2 (DLC) 94% of 287 reviews $2.99 $1.67 / 1.67€
📘👁️ Darkest Dungeon II 76% of 12,000 reviews $38.99 $26.23 / 29.24€
📘👁️ Darkestville Castle 93% of 450 reviews $14.99 $1.49 / 1.49€
📗 Distance 93% of 5,203 reviews $20.99 $4.99 / 4.19€
📘 Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition 95% of 150,701 reviews $44.99 $13.49 / 13.49€
📗👁️ Dread Delusion 93% of 769 reviews $16.79 $13.39 / 11.24€
📗 Dungeons of Sundaria 75% of 1,212 reviews $14.79 $9.89 / 9.76€
📘 Dwarf Fortress 95% of 22,593 reviews $28.99 $25.49 / 24.64€
📘👁️ EARTHLOCK 76% of 345 reviews $28.99 $2.99 / 2.89€
📘👁️ FatalZone 72% of 1,302 reviews $4.99 $3.99 / 3.99€
📗👁️ Garfield Kart - Furious Racing 89% of 9,165 reviews $14.99 $1.49 / 1.49€
📘👁️ Gone Home 77% of 12,585 reviews $14.79 $1.79 / 1.77€
📘 Gotham Knights 69% of 12,007 reviews $59.99 $8.99 / 8.99€
📗👁️ Gravel 75% of 736 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.99€
📘 GRID Legends 74% of 1,485 reviews $59.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
📘👁️ Heart of the Woods 95% of 697 reviews $14.79 $4.49 / 4.43€
📘👁️Hidden Paws 87% of 685 reviews $2.99 $0.74 / 0.74€
📗 Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition 87% of 79,867 reviews $49.99 $12.49 / 12.49€
📘 It Takes Two 95% of 125,269 reviews $39.99 $9.99 / 9.99€
📗 Jet Kave Adventure 87% of 48 reviews $14.99 $1.49 / 1.49€
📗 Kaze and the Wild Masks 95% of 1,162 reviews $19.99 $4.99 / 4.99€
📘 LEGO Builder's Journey 83% of 3,013 reviews $19.99 $4.99 / 4.24€
📘 LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 91% of 31,789 reviews $49.99 $9.99 / 9.99€
📗👁️ Life is Strange: True Colors 89% of 9,697 reviews $59.99 $17.99 / 17.99€
📗👁️ Looking for Aliens 96% of 124 reviews $7.79 $3.19 / 3.11€
📘👁️ Lost Forest 63% of 11 reviews $3.99 $1.19 / 1.19€
👁️ Mari and the Black Tower 91% of 12 reviews $1.99 $0.55 / 0.55€
📘 Mass Effect Legendary Edition 91% of 38,080 reviews $59.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
📗 Mirror's Edge 87% of 27,360 reviews $19.99 $1.99 / 1.99€
📘 Munchkin Digital 78% of 775 reviews $12.49 $11.99 / 9.99€
📘 Mutant Football League 93% of 596 reviews $14.99 $2.99 / 2.95€
📗 nail'd 81% of 964 reviews $4.99 $0.99 / 0.99€
📘👁️ Need for Speed Deluxe Edition 72% of 13,047 reviews $29.99 $4.49 / 4.49€
📗 Need for Speed Heat 84% of 77,264 reviews $69.99 $3.50 / 3.50€
📘 Need for Speed Rivals 77% of 5,082 reviews $19.99 $2.99 / 2.99€
📘 Need for Speed Unbound Palace Edition 64% of 18,837 reviews $79.99 $11.19 / 11.19€
📘🔞 Once a Porn a Time 86% of 174 reviews $19.99 $9.99 / 9.99€
📘 ONE. 87% of 32 reviews $19.5 $15.99 / 15.60€
📘👁️ Psychonauts 2 96% of 8,551 reviews $59.99 $11.99 / 11.99€
📘👁️ Rainswept 85% of 187 reviews $9.99 $3.35 / 2.79€
📘 RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition 86% of 1,549 reviews $19.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
📗👁️ Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments 90% of 5,517 reviews $29.99 $2.99 / 2.99€
👁️ Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles 88% of 495 reviews $9.99 $1.99 / 1.99€
📗 STAR WARS: Squadrons 69% of 21,990 reviews $39.99 $2.00 / 2.00€
📘 STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor 66% of 39,359 reviews $69.99 $34.99 / 34.99€
📗👁️ Summer Memories 93% of 12,280 reviews $19.99 $4.99 / 4.19€
📗👁️ Sunday Gold 80% of 462 reviews $21.99 $5.49 / 5.49€
📘 SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER 97% of 3,361 reviews $3.99 $0.74 / 0.99€
📘👁️ Tails of Iron 89% of 6,202 reviews $24.99 $4.99 / 4.99€
📗 The Forest 95% of 438,773 reviews $16.79 $4.59 / 3.86€
📘👁️ The Fall Part 2: Unbound 81% of 544 reviews $16.99 $1.69 / 1.39€
📘👁️ The Last Case of Benedict Fox 72% of 334 reviews $24.5 $6.24 / 6.12€
📘 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe 94% of 22,797 reviews $21.99 $9.99 / 8.79€
📘 The Station 85% of 855 reviews $14.99 $1.49 / 1.49€
📘 Urtuk: The Desolation 89% of 2,003 reviews $18.99 $4.99 / 4.74€
📗 Valheim 95% of 368,991 reviews $19.99 $11.99 / 11.99€
📘👁️ Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong 72% of 136 reviews $49.99 $14.99 / 14.99€
📗 We Happy Few 76% of 10,052 reviews $59.99 $5.99 / 5.99€
📘👁️ Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood 71% of 466 reviews $29.99 $2.99 / 2.99€
📘 Willy-Nilly Knight 74% of 256 reviews $14.79 $1.49 / 1.47€
📘👁️ Yes, Your Grace 86% of 7,517 reviews $16.79 $4.99 / 4.19€

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Game Ratings Retail Price Current Price
Day 10
🐉Kairosoft Happy New Year 2024🦅 85% of 332 reviews $28.97 $7.32 / 6.31€
📗📦 Millennium Collection 77% of 1,106 reviews $79.97 $5.00 / 4.36€
Day 9
📦 Ultrabundle 81% of 616 reviews $113.93 $35.57 / 30.00€
Day 8
📗📦 Adventure Bundle 88% of 280 reviews $104.91 $10.20 / 10.20€
📗📦 Super Dangerous Bundle 98% of 75 reviews $29.94 $4.74 / 4.74€
Day 5
📗🎁 Casual Adventure Bundle 76% of 163 reviews $36.98 $2.47 / 2.47€
Day 4
📘🎁 Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 1 & 2 Double Pack 74% of 8,937 reviews $69.98 $8.91 / 8.91€
Day 3
📘📦 Battlefield Collection 86% of 114,933 reviews $189.96 $20.37 / 20.37€
📘📦 Star Wars Mega Bundle 66% of 39,443 reviews $209.95 $47.66 / 47.66€
📘📦 Steam Winter Sale 68% of 210 reviews $163.7 $9.98 / 9.98€
Day 2
📘📦 Need for Speed Mega Collection 84% of 77,375 reviews $269.93 $22.07 / 22.07€
Day 1
📦 5 Games for 5 Bucks! 70% of 120 reviews $71.95 $5.12 / 5.12€
📦 94% Sale - Fly and Drive Bundle 86% of 174 reviews $39.96 $2.36 / 2.36€
📗📦 Arkane 20th Anniversary Bundle 87% of 1,746 reviews $119.94 $15.59 / 14.67€
📦 Cat Quest & Cat Quest II Bundle 95% of 6,088 reviews $27.98 $8.30 / 8.30€
📗📦 Conception: Bundle of Joy 80% of 579 reviews $79.98 $14.38 / 14.38€
📘📦 Darkest Dungeon: The Iron Crown 91% of 112,977 reviews $63.49 $26.23 / 25.60€
📗📦 Disney Infinity Gold Collection 89% of 300 reviews $86.97 $17.97 / 17.37€
📘🎁 Divinity: Original Sin - The Source Saga 89% of 20,583 reviews $84.98 $16.43 / 16.43€
📦 EA Family Bundle - Deluxe Edition 91% of 3,229 reviews $79.97 $11.13 / 11.13€
📘📦 Forza Horizon Ultimate Driving Bundle 88% of 140,648 reviews $199.98 $71.98 / 71.98€
📦 KuKo's bundles - $1.98-$10.89 $0.68-$4.29 / 0.54€-2.96€
📗📦 Logic Puzzle Pack 96% of 4,525 reviews $16.95 $4.03 / 4.03€
📗📦 Peggle Pack 97% of 5,775 reviews $9.98 $1.48 / 1.48€
📗🎁 Pendulo Adventure Pack 75% of 528 reviews $19.99 $3.99 / 3.99€
📗📦 Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds complete pack 93% of 130 reviews $33.54 $7.01 / 6.94€
📘📦 Rusty Lake Bundle 98% of 4,184 reviews $32.92 $15.65 / 15.65€
📦 State of Decay Complete Collection 81% of 8,713 reviews $67.25 $14.14 / 12.85€
📦 Supergiant Collection 98% of 221,700 reviews $127.04 $35.63 / 34.86€
📘📦 The Abime Series 97% of 41 reviews $33.58 $14.38 / 12.08€
📘🎁 Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll + OST + artbook 83% of 2,833 reviews $24.73 $9.35 / 9.26€
📘📦 The House of Da Vinci Complete Bundle 88% of 4,721 reviews $59.97 $19.77 / 19.77€
📦 The Room Collection 97% of 24,245 reviews $24.46 $6.89 / 6.67€
📦 The Witcher Trilogy 88% of 70,429 reviews $57.97 $13.02 / 11.94€
📗📦 The Yakuza Collection 93% of 12,435 reviews $139.93 $35.00 / 35.00€
📗🎁 Tomes and Quests - Double Campaigns Bundle 62% of 24 reviews $6.98 $3.31 / 3.31€
📦 Ubisoft's bundles - $79.95-$454.86 $17.95-$99.76 / 13.46€-95.04€
🎁 Yogscast Games Supporters' Bundle 87% of 3,017 reviews $50.79 $1.26 / 1.26€
📦 Zero Escape Trilogy 93% of 4,589 reviews $41.78 $15.98 / 13.36€
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Steam sales just aren't what they used to be. Pixel art, cards, worthless stickers and that's it.

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Sadly that's how its been for...a number of years.
I miss the flash deals in particular, and I'd really like to sell or convert those ugly stickers into something useful.

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I feel like one day they will either allow stickers to be turned into gems or trading. Not sure at what point that'll happen though.

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Gems at the very least I hope.
At this point they are just taking up space in the inventory, perhaps I can hide them via an extension or something?

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You forgot the awful backgrounds you get when crafting a sale badge. It's difficult to come up with something less imaginative.

View attached image.
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13th 🦌 free sticker and 🎴 free card available.

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14th and last 🦌 free sticker and 🎴 free card available.

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Some -90% decent Racing games, take around 5 hours for main complexion each, can be worth if you like these types of games imo :
All-Star Fruit Racing / -90% / 1.47 €
Xenon Racer / -90% / 1.47 €

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Thanks, awesome games, bought! :)

11 months ago
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Thought the sale would last until 4th january but it seems over already?!

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Today is the fourth of january.

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I thought it would include that day too.

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Depending on where you are - it does. But the Sale always ended at the same time of the day - in germany 7 PM.

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Sweden. I need to be more aware of the time zone differences in the future. Now I missed out on two good deals thinking that the sale would end at midnight where I live. I put the games on my wishlist and will buy them when the discounts reappear.

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Daily deals, and most sales on steam start and end around same time, like Chris said 7 PM in Germany and if you said Sweden is also 7 PM for you too.

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Three cheers to Joseahfer for maintaining this thread and the daily reminders.

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Let me have a last word of thanks to Joseahfer for putting in the effort every major Steam sale to help us discover amazing games at the best prices.

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last year was easily found an exchange bot for Winter Sale cards, did anyone found a similar for 2023 ?

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Have you tried Steam Card Exchange's bot? Archi Steam Farm also has a list of bots available for trading.

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The cards expire in a week.

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The cards expire tomorrow.

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Why are bundles like this one full of mediocre to cheap games yet costs lunch money? What will be the future of steamgifts.com if this trend continues? How are people putting up with all this nonsense?

You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man's sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

"You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.

"Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that's through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality-you who have never known any-but to discover it.

"You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God's purpose or your neighbor's welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door-but not to serve your life or pleasure. Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.

"For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors-between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

"Both sides agreed that morality demands the surrender of your self-interest and of your mind, that the moral and the practical are opposites, that morality is not the province of reason, but the province of faith and force. Both sides agreed that no rational morality is possible, that there is no right or wrong in reason-that in reason there's no reason to be moral.

"Whatever else they fought about, it was against man's mind that all your moralists have stood united. It was man's mind that all their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy. Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life.

"You who've lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God, a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim-the source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A-and Man is Man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, his right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational. Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to negate man's rights, is wrong, which means: is evil, which means: is anti-life.

"The source of property rights is the law of causality. All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor. As you cannot have effects without causes, so you cannot have wealth without its source: without intelligence. You cannot force intelligence to work: those who're able to think, will not work under compulsion: those who will, won't produce much more than the price of the whip needed to keep them enslaved. You cannot obtain the products of a mind except on the owner's terms, by trade and by volitional consent. Any other policy of men toward man's poverty is the policy of criminals, no matter what their numbers. Criminals are savages who play in short-range and starve when their prey runs out-just as you're starving today, you who believed that crime could be 'practical' if your government decreed that robbery was legal and resistance to robbery illegal.

"Such was the service we had given you and were glad and willing to give. What did we ask in return? Nothing but freedom. We required that you leave us free to function-free to think and to work as we choose-free to take our own risks and to bear our own losses-free to earn our own profits and to make our own fortunes-free to gamble on your rationality, to submit our products to your judgment for the purpose of a voluntary trade, to rely on the objective value of our work and on your mind's ability to see it-free to count on your intelligence and honesty, and to deal with nothing but your mind. Such was the price we asked, which you chose to reject as too high. You decided to call it unfair that we, who had dragged you out of your hovels and provided you with modern apartments, with radios, movies and cars, should own our palaces and yachts-you decided that you had a right to your wages, but we had no right to our profits, that you did not want us to deal with your mind, but to deal, instead, with your gun. Our answer to that, was: 'May you be damned!' Our answer came true. You are.

"But it is not to him that I wish to speak. I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '-to the order of others.' If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who're making an effort to know. Those who're making an effort to fall to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

"I am speaking to those who desire to live and to recapture the honor of their soul. Now that you know the truth about your world stop supporting your own destroyers. The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction to give it. Withdraw your sanction. Withdraw your support. Do not try to live on your enemies' terms or to win at a game where they're setting the rules. Do not seek the favor of those who enslaved you, do not beg for alms from those who have robbed you, be it subsidies, loans or jobs, do not join their team to recoup what they've taken by helping them rob your neighbors. One cannot hope to maintain one's life by accepting bribes to condone one's destruction. Do not straggle for profit, success or security at the price of a lien on your right to exist. Such a lien is not to be paid off; the more you pay them, the more they will demand; the greater the values you seek or achieve, the more vulnerably helpless you become. Theirs is a system of white blackmail devised to bleed you, not by means of your sins, but by means of your love for existence.

"If you find a chance to vanish into some wilderness out of their reach, do so, but not to exist as a bandit or to create a gang competing with their racket; build a productive life of your own with those who accept your moral code and are willing to struggle for a human existence. You have no chance to win on the Morality of Death or by the code of faith and force; raise a standard to which the honest will repair: the standard of Life and Reason.

"Act as a rational being and aim at becoming a rallying point for all those who are starved for a voice of integrity-act on your rational values, whether alone in the midst of your enemies, or with a few of your chosen friends, or as the founder of a modest community on the frontier of mankind's rebirth..

"But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.

"You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle-and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:

"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."

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dude stop spamming this in every thread

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the fuck did i just read?

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Galt's speech was the hardest part of Atlas Shrugged to get through, what a slog.

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