The basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDThe hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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