Ayn Rand on life
Ayn Rand106 quotes“Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.”
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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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
Ayn RandAyn Rand There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
Ayn RandAyn Rand An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
Ayn RandAyn Rand We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
Ayn RandAyn Rand Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
Ayn RandAyn Rand An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
Ayn RandAyn Rand 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.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
Ayn RandAyn Rand The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
Ayn RandAyn Rand We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
Ayn RandAyn Rand
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