Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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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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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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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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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
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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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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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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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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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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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