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.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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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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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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