I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
AYN RANDWhen 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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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 government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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