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?
AYN RANDIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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