My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
AYN RANDIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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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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A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.
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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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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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