The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
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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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To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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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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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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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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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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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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Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.
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Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance.
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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government
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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
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The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
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