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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
Ayn RandAyn Rand People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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?
Ayn RandAyn Rand Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
Ayn RandAyn Rand A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
Ayn RandAyn Rand My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Ayn RandAyn Rand I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
Ayn RandAyn Rand A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The basic need of the creator is independence.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn RandAyn Rand
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