If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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People don’t want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
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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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You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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