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.
AYN RANDReality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
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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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Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.
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Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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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 government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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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.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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