The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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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 is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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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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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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 swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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