All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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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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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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