Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.
AYN RANDFreedom is to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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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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Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
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The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.
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Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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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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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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The source of the government’s authority is “the consent of the governed.
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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
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I don’t wish to be the symbol of anything. I’m only myself.
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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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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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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.
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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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