To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
AYN RANDTo love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.
AYN RANDI love you so much that nothing can matter to me, not even you, only my love, not your answer, not even your indifference
AYN RANDAn honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.
AYN RANDThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
AYN RANDWhat is man? He’s just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RANDA 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.
AYN RANDYou can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
AYN RANDA 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.
AYN RANDThe man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
AYN RANDNever think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
AYN RANDThe smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
AYN RANDCapitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth.
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 RANDCompromise 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.
AYN RANDWhoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
AYN RANDDo not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked.
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