If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
AYN RANDAn irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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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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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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