The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RANDShe did not know the nature of her loneliness.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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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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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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