To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
AYN RANDPoverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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