The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
AYN RANDFreedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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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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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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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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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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When 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.
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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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