A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
AYN RANDAs we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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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 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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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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 problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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