The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDFreedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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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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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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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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