Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDA 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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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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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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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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