The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDCompromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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