As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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