If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
AYN RANDReason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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