Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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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Capitalism has been called a system of greed.
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Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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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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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.
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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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Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
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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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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 man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
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What is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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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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