Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
AYN RANDStatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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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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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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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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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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.
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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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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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