People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
AYN RANDA 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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