I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
AYN RANDTo deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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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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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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