Man cannot survive except through his mind.
AYN RANDThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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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?
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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