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.
AYN RANDLet 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.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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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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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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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.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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