You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
AYN RANDFreedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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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 essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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