It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDA 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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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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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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