Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RANDIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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