Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RANDThe government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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