The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
AYN RANDPower-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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 worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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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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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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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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