Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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 don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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