Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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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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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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