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.
AYN RANDIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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