Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
AYN RANDPoverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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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?
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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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