Ayn Rand on creation
Ayn Rand106 quotes“The basic need of the creator is independence.”
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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 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 Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Ayn RandAyn Rand I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
Ayn RandAyn Rand To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Steve PrefontaineSteve Prefontaine In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.
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