Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDWhen I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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