Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
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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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
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The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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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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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Freedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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