All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
AYN RANDDo not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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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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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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