Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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 not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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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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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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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 purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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