I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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