Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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