Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
AYN RANDForce and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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I am done with this creed of corruption.
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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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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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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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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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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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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
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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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People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.
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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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