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.
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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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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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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