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.
AYN RANDYou have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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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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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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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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