We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDNever think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.
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Man cannot survive except through his mind.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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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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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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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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The basic need of the creator is independence.
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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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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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