People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
AYN RAND
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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