People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
AYN RANDTo say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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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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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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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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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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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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