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.
AYN RANDRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDCapitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDContradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
AYN RANDDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDI could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
AYN RANDPatience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
AYN RANDI don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
AYN RANDJoy 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.
AYN RANDDon’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
AYN RANDAn honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDIf it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
AYN RANDWe can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDPolitically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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