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 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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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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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 uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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