I am done with this creed of corruption.
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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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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 essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Compromise 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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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