It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RANDIdentify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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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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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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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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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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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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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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