We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
AYN RANDThe source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
More Ayn Rand Quotes
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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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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Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortune.
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An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
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To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?
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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
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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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Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
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Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
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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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Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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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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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
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You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness.
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All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
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A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.
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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
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Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue.
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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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When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
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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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