Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RANDLearn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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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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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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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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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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