Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RANDRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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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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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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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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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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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