Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDFreedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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