I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
AYN RANDThe man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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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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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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