A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
AYN RANDForce and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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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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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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