Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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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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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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