She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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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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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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