Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
AYN RANDThe difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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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.
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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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