Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDShe knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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