You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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