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 RANDWhoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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