The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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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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