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.
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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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