People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
AYN RANDTo love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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 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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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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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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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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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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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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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