The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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I love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
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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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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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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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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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Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
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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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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
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