The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RANDThe man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
AYN RANDAn irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
AYN RANDJoy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
AYN RANDShe knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDThe problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
AYN RANDAn honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDRacism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
AYN RANDYou 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.
AYN RANDMan will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.
AYN RANDTo love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
AYN RANDThe basic need of the creator is independence.
AYN RANDSelf-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RANDIntegrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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