The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RANDDon’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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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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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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